The Canon of College Majors Persists Amid Calls for Change The more academe changes, the more the list of majors stays the same, even though
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.
The "Is More Information Always Better?" File
Monica Davey’s article “Case Shows Limits of Sex Offender Alert Programs” in the NYT (2 Sept 2009)raises a number of interesting sociology of information issues.
Why Do We Need a Faculty Assessment Committee?
Any time we create a committee we should stop and ask why. The baseline for answering that question should be the world (or institution) without
Let’s Take It Seriously
Let’s take assessment and accountability seriously AS AN INSTITUTION. There is a tendency to equate assessment with measuring what professors do to/with students. The buzz
The Bannerization of Assessment
I met recently, along with Andy, Alice, and Kiem, with two reps from the Blackboard company. They were here to tell us about a Blackboard
Conference on Information and Networks
A Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) will be held at the Stern School at NYU in late September. Here’s how they describe what they
Innoeduvation 