digital humanities and undergraduate education

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!