Listening to the news media parrot politicians’ posturing over the AIG bonuses made me see some disturbing parallels. It seems that the search for A
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.
Why are Newspapers Disappearing
In recent weeks we’ve read of the demise of several major newspapers. Most of the analytical conversation about these events suggests that newspapers are getting
Idea for a Seminar
How about an ongoing faculty/student seminar reading latest books on “new economy.” Meets every two weeks for 2-3 hours. Discussion. Main thing is to get
Majors and Departments
Why are something like 90% or more of our majors bound to departments and disciplines? Answer: lots of reasons, some of them good ones. But
Where’s the R&D in Higher Education?
A February 26 NY Times article that carried the title “Now Is No Time to Cut Research” starts out thus: Steve A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief
An Information System We Could Use
Like most colleges, ours invests on an ongoing basis in administrative software for tracking students from admissions, academics and finances. New tools are invented to
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