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How does digital humanities fit into the undergraduate curriculum? This workshop will look at digital humanities from an institutional perspective, considering how it advances the learning outcomes of undergraduate education and sharing models of high impact practices from the digital humanities classroom.
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Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Education!Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons, MLA 2014!
Slides and References!• http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/!• Twitter: @frostdavis!• #mla13 #s3!
DH and Liberal Education!Alexander & Davis. “Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.!
NITLE Survey of Digital Humanities at Liberal Arts Colleges!
• AY 2012-2013: survey & interviews!• Current results!– 32 institutions!– 50 responses!
• Questions!– Activities!– Support!– curriculum!
faculty
library
administrator
IT
museum
Curricular Structure!• Of 32 institutions surveyed: !– 1 has a major, minor, or program!– 4 have a digital humanities course, e.g.,
Introduction to Digital Humanities!– 23 have courses with some Digital
Humanities!
Why DH? (individual)!
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities:
Models, Keywords,
Prototypes!
Digital Humanities as Scholarship!
• Future of scholarship (new methodologies)!• Individual faculty interest!• Assignment level!• Course level!• Department level!
Playing with Text Analysis!
h5p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflecAons-‐on-‐a-‐text-‐analysis-‐assignment/
Keywords!• Play!• Failure!• Text Analysis!• Visualization!
Lexomics, Wheaton College!• Computer science,
statistics & Old English texts!
• Connections!• English-Computer
Science Team-Teaching!– Computing for Poets
(Comp 131)!– Connection
(Computing and Texts)!
• Digital Literacies!• Multiliteracies (New
London Group)!• Digital skills and
practices!
Citizens for a Globally Networked World!
Situating the Global Environment!• Lewis & Clark College!• https://sge.lclark.edu/ !• Jim Proctor,
“Situated Social Learning”!• Interdisciplinary
environmental research!• Situated research!
– Local focus on global issues!
Social learning!• Document research process!• Share research resources!• Share references !• Aggregate projects on blog!
– Maps!– Tags!– Concept maps!– Mashups!
Place-‐based, Collabora/on, Praxis, Community, Fieldwork, Mul/modal, Composi/on, Storytelling
Pedagogical Experimentation !• Digital Humanities Pedagogy:
Practices, Principles and Politics, ed. Brett Hirsch, 2013!
• http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/161 !
Liberal Education: Essential Learning Outcomes!
• Intellectual and practical skills, like !!– Inquiry and analysis!– Critical and creative thinking!– Written and oral communication!– Quantitative literacy!– Information literacy!– Teamwork and problem solving!
• Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world; !
• personal and social responsibility, including civic knowledge and engagement both locally and globally; !
• integrative and applied learning. !
• First-‐Year Seminars and Experiences
• Common Intellectual Experience
• Learning CommuniAes • WriAng-‐Intensive Courses
• CollaboraAve Assignments and Projects
• Undergraduate Research
• Diversity/Global Learning
• Service Learning, Community-‐Based Learning
• Internships • Capstone Courses and Projects
High Impact Prac.ces (Kuh)
Digital Humanities as Liberal Arts Mission!
• Undergraduate research !• Pedagogy!– active & collaborative learning!– project based & applied learning !
• Preparing citizens in a networked world !• Interdisciplinary work & integrative
learning!• Civic engagement & place-based learning!
Undergraduate Research!• Student-faculty collaborative research!• Tasks in expertise range of students!• Meaningful contributions!
!Chris Blackwell & Tom MarAn, “Technology, CollaboraAon, and Undergraduate Research.” Digital Humani/es Quarterly 3, no. 1 (2009).
The Venutus A manuscript
The Homer Multitext Project!
Undergrad Sourcing!
• Collaboration!• Work!• Praxis!
Keywords!
The Office Monkey by Flickr user Shaz Wildcat
Student EngagementPublic Mission
Liberal Education!
Avenues to Engage Undergrads in Digital Humanities!
0%# 10%# 20%# 30%# 40%# 50%# 60%# 70%#
Coursework#
Undergrad#Research#
Thesis/Project#
Work#
Internship#
Enduring Women!
Keywords!• GLAM!• Public!• Multimodal!• Composition!• Gender!
Process Checklist for Integrating Digital Humanities Projects into Courses!
1. Connecting Course and Project!2. Scaffolding and Chunking!3. Collaborative Teaching!4. Logistics!!http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/process-checklist-for-integrating-digital-humanities-projects-into-courses/ !
Increasing Expertise!
Using Digital Resources
ContribuAng to Digital Resources
Producing Digital Resources
Student Marketability!• What employers want!• AAC&U survey!• Pannapacker article!• Teamwork!
Online Learning?!
“Going the Distance: Online EducaAon in the United States” (2011), p. 7. 100% MOOC Massive Open Online Course
Online Learning as Delivery Method!
Recruiting? !
Thank you!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!