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
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.
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
It’s Never About the Content
Breaking News Alert The New York Times Saturday, February 28, 2009 — 6:09 PM ET —– Obama Is Said to Pick Kansas Governor for Health
Notificational Webs in Cricles of Friends
In the most recent New Yorker, a short story, “Brother on Sunday” by A.M. Holmes, opens with a woman on the phone: “Are you sure?”
Paying for Online (Media) Information
James Surowiecki has a piece in the current New Yorker “News You Can Lose” (22 December) about the increasingly common disappearance of local newspapers. He
Fundamentals: information, society, and economy
Provocative short piece on Keynes in NYT Magazine today: “The Remedist” by Robert Skidelsky. At issue is the question of just what it was that
Innoeduvation 