How stupid can university rankings get?

May 25, 2008 at 7:17 pm · Filed under pedagogy, pod casts

This is an indication on just how relative, simplistic, and self-serving the so-called university ‘global’ rating system has become. A university in Melbourne , unable, it seems, to compete on the rather insane ranking system created by newspapers like the London Times, has decided to create its own ranking system. And who comes on top of this ranking system do you think? The city of Melbourne and a university that doesn’t even have a humanities school. Subjective or what? Apples and Pears or what? (link)

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Digital Humanities: Expert Seminars

March 9, 2007 at 12:06 am · Filed under digital humanities, humanities computing, pod casts, social media, web2.0

Here is a list of ‘podcast’ seminars undertaken by the Methods Network at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities here at King’s College. And don’t you just love the Internet; it means that you don’t have to attend all these seminars! And it is now becoming possible to learn about almost any subject online, not only through text (as has been the case up until very recently) but also through video and audio. And you can listen to them when ever you want; the best thing about the Internet is not the ease of distribution, but the reinvention of asynchronous time. Here is the URI to subscribe:

http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/podcast/methnet-podcast.xml

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