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Chris Long

What's the Matter With MOOCs? - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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DigitalPedagogy Pedagogy EduTech HigherEd

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  • The strangest thing about this MOOC obsession is the idea that something that very wealthy private institutions offer for free, at a loss, as a service to humanity, must somehow represent the magic numbers in the higher-education lottery. It’s new, it’s “innovative,” and it’s big, the thinking goes. So it must be the answer.
Mike Furlough

MLA issues guidelines on evaluation of digital scholarship | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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  • Mike Furlough on 30 Apr 12
     
    From Inside Higher Ed April 30, 2012
Chris Long

Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure - 2 views

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  • Centers are the most efficient way for institutions of higher education to make this investment
  • If you are going to make an institutional investment in cyberinfrastructure for humanities and social sciences, as a university, you are obviously better off making that investment once, and in a high-impact, high-profile way, than many more times, with less impact, at a higher cost, across more units. Aside from the economies-of-scale argument, there is an argument to be made about the benefits of interdisciplinarity: it is still, in most universities, a relatively rare thing for faculty in humanities and social sciences to have ready access to compelling opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within their own institution.
  • It's actually worse than that: the humanities tend to hold the private sector in contempt, as the culprit in the corporatization of the university.
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  • I distinctly remember a workshop that Matt and I did for other graduate students in the English department on the subject of electronic dissemination of work in progress, and electronic publishing of work from dissertation research. Most of these students were extremely skeptical of our encouragement to do these things, which they clearly regarded as extremely risky. What did they fear? They were worried that this kind of publication wouldn't count. They were worried that learning how to do this would be a distraction from their real work. They were worried that someone would steal their ideas. We argued that the only way to protect one's claim to an idea was to publish it, but to no avail: they were receiving advice to avoid the web from at least some of my colleagues in the department, particularly (at that time) those responsible for counseling students on how to navigate the job market
Chris Long

#Altac and the Tenure Track - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • At the Digital Scholarship Commons, we sought to be collaborative in developing digital projects, but we also found it difficult to conceptualize what that would mean within a humanities context that primarily favored individual scholarship.
  • Chris Long on 29 May 12
     
    At the Digital Scholarship Commons, we sought to be collaborative in developing digital projects, but we also found it difficult to conceptualize what that would mean within a humanities context that primarily favored individual scholarship.
Mike Furlough

A Digital Boot Camp for Grad Students in the Humanities - The Digital Campus - The Chro... - 0 views

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  • Mike Furlough on 30 Apr 12
     
    More on the Praxis program, linked elsewhere in this list. Published April 30 2012
Chris Long

Next Generation of Online-Learning Systems Faces Barriers to Adoption - Wired Campus - ... - 0 views

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  • Chief among them are professors’ desires to customize what they teach and their reluctance to use prepackaged course material. The most sophisticated of today’s online-learning systems rely on machine-guided instruction to adapt lessons to the needs of individual students. But most of those systems do not yet allow instructors to deeply tailor the material to meet their course needs.
Mike Furlough

Announcing the Digital Humanities Winter Institute - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of High... - 1 views

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  • Mike Furlough on 18 May 12
     
    The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) announced a new initiative, the Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI). DHWI will run from Monday, 7 January through Friday, 11 January 2013.
Chris Long

Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

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  • "Make sure that someone's got your back, but do the risky thing."
  • Sidonie Smith, is leading an investigation of future forms of the dissertation, and whose Committee on Information Technology is working on issues surrounding the review of digital scholarship for tenure and promotion.
  • Real innovation requires risk
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  • Getting her work out of the pile is helped enormously by having done something more than what was expected
  • You must support her in doing the risky thing. Insist that she defend her experimental work, and then, in turn, defend her choice to anyone who doesn't understand her deviation from the road ordinarily traveled.
  • Scholars doing digital work require kinds of support that many more traditionally oriented humanists do not: access to technical resources for both their teaching and scholarship, as well as help maintaining those resources.
  • we run the risk of breaking the innovative spirit that we've hoped to bring to our departments
  • And where that spirit isn't broken, untenured digital scholars run the risk of burnout from having to produce twice as much—traditional scholarship and digital projects—as their counterparts do
Keith Hamon

Digital Humanities Resources, Part 1: Organizations and Coding | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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Lee Bessette digital humanities

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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 12
     
    Back in 2011 (you know, last month), I stated that I wanted to become a digital humanist (if that's what it can be called). Over the past month, I've collected a number of resources in order to try and make this a reality. As just about everything I do professionally now, I'm sharing them with you.
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