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Our Digital Age: implications for learning and its (online) institutions (HASTAC)
Our Digital Age: implications for learning and its (online) institutions CATHY N. DAVIDSON, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Durham, USA DAVID THEO GOLDBERG, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, USA HASTAC co-founders Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg have co-authored an article that was published in the most recent volume of E-Learning and…
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E-learning and Digital Cultures
I have just started doing this new course on Coursera. Admittedly I know the content pretty well, however it is the method of delivery that is very interesting indeed. I’ll write a review of their ‘experimental teaching methods’ soon…
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The Open Victoria Project: Open-Government Widgets for Enhanced Citizen-Government Dialogue
This is a project I am trying to develop. It is a proposal for a small prototype project. Any takers? Synopsis The Open Victoria Project will investigate and improve access to online Victorian State Government knowledge bases in a high-capacity broadband era. The project will repurpose and make available a set of portable generic widget…
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Journal of Digital Humanities Volume 1, No. 2
Here is an interesting innovation from the ever prolific Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in the US. It is built on a platform they developed called PressForward and is an open-access journal “that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the DH community in the previous quarter”. The articles are…
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Opportunity and accountability in the eResearch push, Digital Humanities, 2012, Hamburg, Germany
I would like to open with an image; it is an image from Fritz Lang’s famous 1927 German Expressionist Science Fiction movie, Metropolis. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis depicts a futuristic dystopian society where wealthy intellectuals rule from the city above ground, oppressing the workers who live in the depths below them.…
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