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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.
Recent Pieces from AAUP
May/June2013 H-J Tiede. Faculty Communication with Governing Boards R G Ehrenberg, R W Patterson, and A V Key. Faculty Members on Boards of Trustees
What Presidents and Boards are Reading About
The most recent issue of Trusteeship Magazine, a publication of the Association of Governing Boards. http://agb.org/trusteeship/2013/7
A Feminist Alternative to MOOCs?
Feminist Anti-MOOCInside Higher Ed August 19, 2013 By Scott Jaschik At first glance, “Feminism and Technology” sounds like another massive open online open course. The course
NYT 9/2013 Study Sees Benefit in Courses With Nontenured Instructors
National Bureau of Economic Research study based on data from more than 15,000 students who arrived at Northwestern University from 2001 to 2008. Study Sees
NYT 9/13 "New Metric for Colleges: Graduates’ Salaries"
PayScale.com ranks over 1000 institutions in terms of what their graduates earn and what kinds of jobs they get. COMMON SENSENew Metric for Colleges: Graduates’
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