Readers, Have been swamped with teaching and administrative work of late, and trying to spend two days a week at the Center for Advanced Study
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.
Peer to Peer Education: Can Students Teach One Another?
One of society’s major “information institutions” is, of course, the university (and colleges, too). In these institutions information is generated, classified, evaluated, sanctioned, organized, and
Closing the Loop in Practice: Does Assessment Get Assessment?
At a liberal arts college with which I am familiar, the administration recently distributed “syllabus guidelines” with 34 items for inclusion on course syllabi. Faculty
Do Organizations that ‘Fess Up Do Better?
Geoffrey W. McCarthy, a retired chief medical officer for the V.A., wrote, in a letter to the NYT on 9 August in response to an
Information and Educational Assessment I
In a letter to the NYT about an article on radiation overdoses, George Lantos writes: My stroke neurologists and I have decided that if treatment
How Academic Assessment Gets it Backwards
In a letter to the NYT about an article on radiation overdoses, George Lantos writes: My stroke neurologists and I have decided that if treatment
Innoeduvation 