Regular readers of Edwired know that much of my career in higher education has been devoted to the improvement of teaching in history, both at the college and K-12 level. In fact, one of the main goals of this blog was and remains the improvement of history teaching through a broader conversation about what constitutes…
Pressure, pressure
The latest edition of our Digital Campus podcast went up last week. Tom and Dan upped the pressure on me to start tweeting, but I’m proud to say that I stood firm and I still don’t tweet. In addition to my continued struggles to remain true to my principles, we spent the podcast discussing all…
The Future of the AHA (cont’d)
Over the past year or so I’ve written several posts about the future of the American Historical Association. In yesterday’s AHA Today blog, Rob Townsend offers up a concise review of how the reforms of the annual meeting initiated by Roy Rosenzweig have (or have not) taken hold at the meeting. Roy’s hope was that…
Digital Media and Student Learning
[NB: This post originally appeared in the blog hist.net.] The January issue of Academic Commons highlights the results of several years of research on the intersections between digital media and student learning in the humanities and social sciences. The various essays presented in this issue — and a second issue due out in February —…