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Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Education Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons, MLA 2014

Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Education

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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!

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Slides and References!•  http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/!•  Twitter: @frostdavis!•  #mla13 #s3!

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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.!

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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  

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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!

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Why DH? (individual)!

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Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities:

Models, Keywords,

Prototypes!

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Digital Humanities as Scholarship!

•  Future of scholarship (new methodologies)!•  Individual faculty interest!•  Assignment level!•  Course level!•  Department level!

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Playing with Text Analysis!

h5p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflecAons-­‐on-­‐a-­‐text-­‐analysis-­‐assignment/    

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Keywords!•  Play!•  Failure!•  Text Analysis!•  Visualization!

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Lexomics, Wheaton College!•  Computer science,

statistics & Old English texts!

•  Connections!•  English-Computer

Science Team-Teaching!–  Computing for Poets

(Comp 131)!–  Connection

(Computing and Texts)!

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•  Digital Literacies!•  Multiliteracies (New

London Group)!•  Digital skills and

practices!

Citizens for a Globally Networked World!

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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!

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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  

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Pedagogical Experimentation !•  Digital Humanities Pedagogy:

Practices, Principles and Politics, ed. Brett Hirsch, 2013!

•  http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/161 !

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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. !

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•  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)  

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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!

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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).      

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The  Venutus  A  manuscript  

The Homer Multitext Project!

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Undergrad Sourcing!

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•  Collaboration!•  Work!•  Praxis!

Keywords!

The  Office  Monkey  by  Flickr  user  Shaz  Wildcat  

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Student EngagementPublic Mission

Liberal Education!

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Avenues to Engage Undergrads in Digital Humanities!

0%# 10%# 20%# 30%# 40%# 50%# 60%# 70%#

Coursework#

Undergrad#Research#

Thesis/Project#

Work#

Internship#

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Enduring Women!

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Keywords!•  GLAM!•  Public!•  Multimodal!•  Composition!•  Gender!

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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/ !

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Increasing Expertise!

Using  Digital  Resources  

ContribuAng  to  Digital  Resources  

Producing  Digital  Resources  

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Student Marketability!•  What employers want!•  AAC&U survey!•  Pannapacker article!•  Teamwork!

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Online Learning?!

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“Going  the  Distance:  Online  EducaAon  in  the  United  States”  (2011),  p.  7.            100%                                    MOOC                            Massive  Open  Online  Course  

Online Learning as Delivery Method!

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Recruiting? !

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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!