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!
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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!
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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!
