Subtweeting a few days on academic social media. Did we forget to teach that “I found this interesting” is not the same as “it is
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.
Defining human centered problem solving
I just got a text asking for language for a big grant proposal, one part of which involves bringing concepts and tools from human centered
Do More of This
My “Human Centred Design” course finishes off with each student presenting a section of a workshop on human centred design/design thinking/creative problem solving that they
Small Group Meetings on Zoom
An alternative, with different functionality, to “breakout rooms.” Zoom, a video-conferencing tool that lots of folks have started to use for teaching recently, has a
To Grade or Not to Grade
My musings when a friend asked about my thoughts on whether we ought to switch to credit/no-credit for this semester. At the law school here
Got a Plan? What does the college do when no one shows up in September?
I have not seen anything addressing the following issue, so here I go. This is college/university acceptance season. The plan over the next month or
Innoeduvation 