“Liberal Arts Education” as a concept is unfortunately dominated by its own legacy. When most of us think about the liberal arts our thoughts tend
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.
New Digital News Outlet from KALW
This week KALW is launching its new local digital magazine to complement their broadcast work. The new site has a way for community leaders to
Great Info Blog and Interesting Sounding Conference (NY Feb)
Check out Graham Webster’s excellent blog for some insightful essays on topics not unrelated to those I’m writing about here. It’s called:infopolitics/ While reading through
Those damn unconnected dots again (rough draft)
An article in the Times, under the headline “Obama Says Plot Could Have Been Disrupted,” reprises the metaphor of “connecting the dots” to describe different
Who Uses That?
As the year wraps up I’m going over unpublished drafts of posts. Came across this one from September that hints at (or at least resonates
Information about Infermation
Alas, it turns out that I (and my Bangalore colleague) may not be able to claim coinage of the term “infermation” as introduced in a
Innoeduvation 