Designing Higher Education from Scratch - Hand, Head, Heart University
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View ArticleDesigning Higher Education from Scratch - Libertates University
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View ArticleThe Impact of #FutureEd on My Dissertation
Over the last few weeks, I have been immersed in knowledge about knowledge. I am currently a Ph.D. student looking at how informal and DIY learning is impacting higher education, primarily medium-sized...
View ArticleA modest proposal
ProposalTo develop a one year collaborative research masters degree in the humanities to be delivered for between one tenth and one twentieth of the current cost of a research masters degree delivered...
View ArticleDesigning Higher Education from Scratch
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View ArticleSocial media and collaborative history
The MarineLives project uses a variety of digital and social media to communicate with its volunteers, and to reach a wider and developing public.read more
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Hello Race Online & FutureED members! I'd like to share an event that some of you may be interested in participating in:...
View ArticleCumulative impact of HASTAC membership on external social media
The MarineLives academic/public history hybrid project has had a presence within HASTAC since late January 2014.It has been a fantastic learning experience to see such an active community (and...
View ArticleHelp establish an educational charity
The founders of the MarineLives project need the help of the HASTAC community.We are establishing an educational charity to be named Connecting Primary Sources, and would benefit enormously from the...
View ArticleUndergraduate and graduate Digital History opportunities
The all volunteer MarineLives project has opportunities for undergraduate students, and for graduate students at masters and doctoral level, to work on different aspects of our 2014-2015 research...
View ArticleMarineLives Digital History Research Programme 2014-2015
The MarineLives Digital History Research Programme 2014-2015 can be downloaded here. The programme has been developed with our academic partners - the universities of Bath Spa, Mannheim, and St.read more
View Article"Who Am I in a Digital World?"
"Who am I in a Digital World?" will investigate paradoxes of digital technologies and social media on the individual and in a global context. Ocelot Scholars will facilitate discussions among high...
View ArticleVisualizing Science Syllabus
Special Topics: Visualizing Science Arts 490Professor elin o’Hara slavick TA Anna Delgado GRC Gongting Wuread more
View ArticleLearning in a New and Unconventional Way Is Scary
When pressed by students to come up with a research topic because they cannot think of a topic on their own, I have been known to suggest that they write about the benefits of meditating in charnel...
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Building the Road: Help Us Revolutionize the Way Students Experience College
Hey there HASTAC and world!I want to invite you and your brilliant minds to help me and my fraternity revolutionize the way students experience college. We need your help to come up with the most...
View ArticleReflections on the First Half of #FutureEd at Duke: The Here and the Not Yet
Currently in The History and Future of Higher Education, taught by Dr. Cathy Davidson at Duke University, we are focused on completing the final assignment: designing a university from scratch.read more
View ArticleRobotics Inspiring Students to Pursue STEM
Imagine America as a place where the percentage of students involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is higher than average. Imagine America as a place where students are...
View ArticleWould You Send Your Child to This Institution? #FutureEd
Last week, for the #FutureEd class where students are working in teams to design three very different institutions of higher education "from scratch" (i.e. no cake mix for these learning cupcakes...
View ArticleHow to Get a Job at Google: Rsp to NYTimes Tom Friedman #FutureEd
Usually when my blogs are a "response to the New York Times," it is to disagree, push back, emend, quibble, or rant. Today, I am reading Thomas Friedman's"How To Get a Job at Google, Part II," with...
View Article#HASTAC2014 Peru Day I: OPENing Up
The HASTAC 2014 Conference in Lima, Peru is OPEN in every sense.read more
View ArticleHASTAC 2014 & AFRO-PERU
Where are the black Peruvians? It is the beginning of the third day of the HASTAC 2014 conference and we have yet to hear from perhaps the most marginalized ethnic population in Peru: Afro-Peruvians....
View ArticleHigher Ed from Scratch: Terra University, A FutureEd Collaborative Thought...
Our motto and driving vision:We believe in an education system that is personalized-not standardized, comprehensive but not a check-list, and exploratory not mandatory. Dear HASTAC Community,The...
View ArticleCrowducate - Open Education
This is a modified version from first blog post on Crowducate. I would love to hear your feedback.read more
View ArticleOur College
I recently completed a "Designing Higher Education from Scratch" project as part of Cathy Davidson's "History and Future of Higher Education" course. As part of a team that included Claire Payton,...
View ArticleHand Head Heart University: Addressing What’s Missing in the Current...
As we were divided into three small teams in Professor Cathy Davidson’s class ‘The Future of Higher Education” at Duke University, we didn’t know very much about our classmates-only that we all came...
View ArticleOcelot Scholars Expands Mission
Posted today on the Ocelot Scholars Website:Ocelot Scholars grew out the HASTC coordinated #FutureEd initiative and was designed to give students one way to participate in the global discussion on the...
View ArticleHow "conventional" MOOCs formed the idea for Crowducate
This is a shortened and modified post for HASTAC from my personal blog how I came up with the idea of Crowducate.read more
View ArticleMy #FutureEd Semester
I teach a “Race, Culture and Migration” course at the University of Texas at Austin and for the spring semester it was a partnering course with the HASTAC #FutureEd Initiative. My class was somewhat of...
View ArticleWriting (In Public) Across the Curriculum
Whenever I talk about the kinds of changes that will make the modern university more responsivel to the age we live in now and less rooted in the standardization, regulation, enforcement, and...
View ArticleHASTAC 2014: The future of ed tech is here, it’s just not evenly distributed
Tim Maughan and I presented four design fiction case studies for the HASTAC 2014 conference, highlighting the disparity between the shiny hype cycle of ed tech and what the reality might be if we...
View ArticleLearning, Libraries, and the Days of Future Past: Thomas Frey's 'Liquid...
In a recent symposium on the future of libraries co-sponsored by ALA, futurist Thomas Frey proposed that the future role for libraries may be to formulate and nuture "a liquid network for ideas." I...
View ArticleMore on Global Brazil and Higher Ed
In the fall of 2013, Duke University announced the new humanities lab, Global Brazil. As one component of the lab, the Duke Brazil Initiative fosters connections between Duke and universities in...
View ArticleBrazilian Artist J. Carlos and Higher Ed
The Centro Cultural Correiro in Rio de Janeiro is currently exhibiting the works of Jose Carlos de Brito Cunha, better known as J. Carlos. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1884, J. Carlos is famous for his...
View ArticleUFRRJ Nova Iguaçu: First Impressions
Yesterday was my first day on the Nova Iguaçu campus of the University Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro. I traveled to the campus from Copacabana with Dean Dr. Alexandre Fortes and one of his graduate...
View ArticleBrazil Higher Ed: Internet Sources
This is the first of three blogs that list sources concerning higher education in Brazil. In this blog I focus on resources that are readily available online through a Google search. Below, it is...
View ArticleDiscussing Race and Education in Brazil
Yesterday at lunch, Maria Lúcia and I sat with Allofs, a graduate of UFRRJ and an Educação a Distancia tutor for the university. I wanted to interview him formally, but he said that he had to go to...
View ArticleUFFRJ – History and Trajectory
This past week, I visited the Nova Iguaçu campus of the Universidade Federal Rural de Rio do Janeiro (UFRRJ). While, I have written about my first impression of the campus, this post covers the history...
View ArticleUFFRJ Seropédica – First Impressions
On Friday I visited the Seropédica campus of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). This campus is the first and largest campus of the university. It is about thirty-minutes away...
View ArticleMore About UFRRJ Nova Iguaçu
The history and trajectory of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) is complex, driven by a number of federal laws and decrees and the merger of various feread more
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"Scholarly Voices" Promotes Undergraduate Voices on HASTAC
“Scholarly Voices” is a new group that was designed to identify and promote undergraduate voices on HASTAC. The group is not a place to discuss undergraduate writing. It is a tool to make it easier...
View ArticleCFP (MLA 2016): Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users
2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TXForum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLCReaders, Viewers, Listeners, Usersread more
View ArticleTeaching with HASTAC and Hybrid Pedagogy
I made the following remarks earlier today at the 30th Annual LAND Conference.As I have previously argued, “While discussing vital educational issues, the voices of community college students are...
View ArticleTeaching/Reading Nick Sousanis' *Unflattening*
We are in the early stages of developing an Unflattening Portal on Scholarly Voices. The portal is being designed for individuals teaching or reading Nick Sousanis'Unflattening.read more
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Revolution in Higher Education - September 2015 MIT Press
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/revolution-higher-education
View ArticleLearning about Publications on *Unflattening* Portal
I have previously written about how we are developing an Unflattening Portal on Scholarly Voices. The portal is designed to support individuals teaching or reading Dr. Nick Sousanis’ Unflattening...
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