Yesterday we lost one of the greatest historians and greatest humans I’ll ever have the privilege to know. My colleague and friend Roy Rosenzweig passed away, surrounded by his family yesterday afternoon. Although I’ve known for a while that this was going to happen, I still can’t imagine the world without Roy. I first met…
Tag: Academic Commons
Which way to the art?
The latest installment of Digital Campus is now up online. Our focus episode 14 is on museums on the web and how all aspects of the museum might be changed by digital media. We also consider the open sourcing of higher education and why so many in academia seem to be resisting the trend toward…
The Shrinking Historian?
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been bothered by American Historical Association President Barbara Weinstein‘s most recent “From the President” column in Perspectives, the monthly newsletter of the AHA, titled “The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Historians?“. In the essay, Weinstein is responding to a piece by Sam Tanenhaus that appeared in The New…
Research on Blogging
Here at George Mason, we have a cohort of faculty who are all using blogs in their classes and are working together to share our experiences as the year goes along. At our group lunch today we heard a presentation from Ying Xie, a PhD student in instructional design from Penn State, who presented some…