Dan Sarofian-Butin
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op-eds & general audience writings

I believe that writing for a general audience serves a critical function to bridge academic research and public practice. I have published in a wide variety of general audience publications, including Forbes magazine, Education Week, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Real Clear Education, InsideHigherEd, and eLearn magazine. While some of these publications have more focused audiences (such as InsideHigherEd, whose readers are primarily in higher education), my goal is always to articulate and analyze fairly technical research-based academic work for a broader audience such that it has meaning and applicability to important contemporary issues. These publications reach anywhere from 100,000 (such as InsideHigherEd) to over one million readers (such as The Times Higher Education). Some of my op-eds, such as for eLearn magazine, are among the top-viewed articles for the site. Below is a listing of all such writings, in reverse chronological order (most recent writings are first).  
  • “It’s Actually Not About The Student.” in InsideHigherEd. April 17, 2017.
  • “A Failing Ed System” in Education Week. January 19, 2017.
  • “Thank You Donald...For What You Have Taught Universities” in Times Higher Education. January 6, 2016.
  • “Watson, Please Replace Me!” in InsideHigherEd. November 19, 2016.
  • “The Worst Four-Letter Word in Higher Education Today? Uber.” in eLearn Magazine. October, 2016.
  • “Learning 2.0 and the Future of the Disrupted University” in Forbes. September 6, 2016.
  • “A Teacher Will Save the World” in Trinidad Guardian Newspaper, September 4, 2016.
  • “Is It Possible To Embrace ‘Uber U’?” in InsideHigherEd. August 28, 2016.
  • “MOOCs and Beyond” in InsideHigherEd. August 22, 2016.
  • “Siri … Please Stick to Just Being a Catalyst” in InsideHigherEd. April 10, 2016.
  • “So You Want To Be A Dean?” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 14, 2016. [included in the Chronicle’s Focus Series: “How To Be A Dean”)
  • “On MOOCs and Mizzou” in InsideHigherEd. December 10, 2015.
  • “The Future of the Future of Higher Education” in InsideHigherEd. November 9, 2015.
  • “Blinded by the Binary” in InsideHigherEd. September 29, 2015.
  • “The Death of Teaching…and Birth of Learning”. New England Journal of Higher Education, March 23, 2015. Co-authored with Sanjoy Mahajan.
  • “My Technological Dream of Carpe Diem” in InsideHigherEd. November 3, 2014.
  • “The Course is Dead. Long Live the Course.” in InsideHigherEd. Sept. 4, 2014.
  • “The Real Double-Shot: Starbucks and the Future of Competency-Based Education” in InsideHigherEd. June 23, 2014.
  • “Unbundle This! Why MOOCs 2.0 are the True Disruption in Higher Education” in RealClear Education. June 4, 2014.
  • “From MOOCs to Dragons” in InsideHigherEd. April 14, 2014.
  • “Learning in the Clouds”. New England Journal of Higher Education, July 2013.
  • “Does Community Engagement Have a Place in a Placeless University?” New England Journal of Higher Education, March 2013.
  • “I Am Not a Machine”. New England Journal of Higher Education, December 2012.
  • “MOOCs R Us.” eLearn Magazine. September, 2012.
  • “What MIT Should Have Done.” eLearn Magazine. June, 2012. [one of the top 5 downloaded articles from the ACM digital library]
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    • Teacher Preparation - Practice & Policy
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    • Service-Learning
    • Academic Programs in Community Engagement
  • Courses
    • Social Foundations of Education
    • Theories of Organizational Change
    • Research Methods
    • Disruption in Higher Education
    • Community Development