By Ellie Bothwell. Study finds that students choose to major in subjects that are ‘more challenging’ in bad economic times. More...
15 août 2015
15 août 2015
The folly of focusing only on ‘facilitating subjects’
By Sarah Rowlands. Ditching and devaluing ‘soft’ subjects puts creative arts in jeopardy, warns Sarah Rowlands. More...
10 août 2015
Former aux humanités digitales - That Camp
Par Evelyne Jardin. Un THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) s'est tenu du 9 au 11 juin 2015 à l'INHA, (Institut national en histoire de l'Art) organisme de recherche qui, parenthèse, propose chaque mois Les lundis numériques (programme 2015-2016). Fermons la parenthèse. Voir l'article...
5 août 2015
An honest look into a liberal arts iPad program
By . Offering a realistic glimpse of what it’s like to try and use mobile technology in undergraduate and graduate courses in higher education, one rural, liberal arts college says the only way to effectively implement an iPad program is if the technology has no usage hiccups and comes second to pedagogy. More...
5 août 2015
Business schools are not the enemy of the liberal arts
By . Business schools constitute a large and growing part of higher education. They have expanded so rapidly in recent decades that they now educate one in seven undergraduates in North America and Europe. Yet despite their popularity with fee-paying students, business schools are vulnerable. More...
4 août 2015
That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket
By George Anders. In less than two years Slack Technologies has become one of the most glistening of tech’s ten-digit “unicorn” startups, boasting 1.1 million users and a private market valuation of $2.8 billion. If you’ve used Slack’s team-based messaging software, you know that one of its catchiest innovations is Slackbot, a helpful little avatar that pops up periodically to provide tips so jaunty that it seems human. More...reases odds of marriage 3-4%, U.S. researcher found. Read more...
4 août 2015
University Illusions and the Liberal Arts
By Joshua Kim. “The illusory university pretends that all professors are guided by a shared sense of educational excellence specific to their institution”.
From Kevin Carey’s NYTimes Upshot piece - The Fundamental Way That Universities Are an Illusion. Read more...
1 août 2015
Humanities for All
By Jacqueline Thomsen. For academics, the information in books designed for general consumption can be too basic. On the other hand, academic books aren't exactly appealing to the general public.
A new grant program at the National Endowment for the Humanities hopes to bridge that gap. The first recipients of the Public Scholars program are being announced today, in an attempt to present more research in the humanities to the general public. Professors who do serious scholarship are receiving grants to help them on book projects intended for more than just academics.
The Public Scholars are part of an initiative launched by the NEH earlier this year, called “The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square,” that hopes to bring more of its funded research to nonacademics and relate it more closely to everyday life. Read more...
1 août 2015
Starter Exercises for Interactive Storytelling
By Anastasia Salter. When we think about bringing interactive fiction into the classroom we often focus on the technology. I’ve written here about using accessible tools such as Twine, Twine 2.0, Inform 7, and Inklewriter to create everything from games to interactive essays and digital humanities projects. Read more...31 juillet 2015
Interrogating a Garment Or: The Rise of the Research Question (and the Decline of the Thesis)
By Brian Mathews. I want to draw your attention to a forthcoming book: A Guided Inquiry Approach To Teaching The Humanities Research Project
- Randell Schmidt (head librarian at Gill St. Bernard’s School)
- Emilia Giordanois (assistant librarian at Gill St. Bernard’s School)
- Geoffrey Schmidt (director of curriculum and instruction at Phoenix Charter School)
The book was written for teachers, librarians, or students in high school or early college and explores how to research, write, and present a humanities research project and paper. More...
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