I’m pleased to announce that Hacking the Academy is now available in its online edition from the University of Michigan’s Digital Culture series. As my colleague Dan Cohen explains in his post on how the book came about, one should be careful about what one wishes for when it comes to a “hack” of a…
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When Student Projects Take Wing
Way back in the fall 2006 semester, I taught my first version of my grad seminar Teaching History in the Digital Age. A key component of that course is that students must either create a digital learning tool/application/opportunity for students and/or teachers to use or, if they don’t yet have the digital skills, must create…
E-Text Job
In the most recent installment of Digital Campus we discussed the rise of the e-textbook on college campuses and wondered how much longer it would take before e-texts replaced paper and glue texts as the primary vehicle for the delivery of information to students. The very next day my friend Sherry Linkon, co-director of Youngstown…
When Students Assess Scholars
What happens when students assess the work of scholars in a public, i.e. online, forum? To what degree to student assessments have an impact on professional reputations, on promotion decisions, or on resource allocations? I’ve been mulling this question over for the past week because about a week ago I received a somewhat testy email…