All told, I have probably spent 20 full person-years in college and university classrooms. I’ve taught courses in sociology, public policy, information science, design, philosophy,
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Platforms for Pedagogy I
First Installment in a Month-Long Project “Information Systems for Pedagogical Productivity” Are you like me? A college or university instructor whose computer storage is littered
Entrance vs Exit Exams
My students often care about the grade they earn in my course because they believe it will influence subsequent opportunities. And so they care about
Curriculum Design Lab
By the time curriculum ideas become reality they’ve been so picked over by committees and assistant associate deans that their pedagogical coherence is reduced to
Clarity and Credulity
I need reading glasses. When this need first emerged – maybe in my late 40s – it was only for extremely small scale close up
Humans in Cabbagetown
This from early pandemic days. We don’t even bother trying to order groceries for delivery any more. Several times over the last seven weeks we’ve
Innoeduvation 