The White House asked for some feedback on their proposed “scorecard” for higher education cost and value which is intended “to make it easier for
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.
Prying Information Loose and Dealing with Loose Information
A sociology of information triptych this morning. Disclosure laws that fail to fulfill their manifest/intended function, the secret work of parsing public information, and the
Journalism and Research Again
Lots of Twitter and blog activity in response to NYT article about Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff research paper on effects of teachers on students’ lives.
New Book on Data Journalism
Simon Rogers has a new book called Facts are Sacred: The power of data coming out as a part of the Guardian Shorts series with
Google Knol into the Dustbin of E-history
After 15 weeks of non-stop work, a moment for thinking about something other than classes and budgets came available today. Recently, while googling about, I
Rubrics, Disenchantment, and Analysis I
There is a tendency, in certain precincts in, and around, higher education, to fethishize rubrics. One gets the impression at conferences and from consultants that
Innoeduvation 