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…
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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 —…
A Broken Promise?
The September 2008 issue of the Journal of American History contains the transcript of an interchange between eight leaders in the field of digital history. The transcript, which is finally available online (why it wasn’t make open access from the start I can’t imagine), should be required reading, not only for those working in or…
A Crisis Diminishing Expectations?
“You made history enjoyable, which let me tell you is no easy task!” This particular quotation came from one of my undergraduate students last semester who wrote this in the comment field of our end-of-semester course evaluation form. I’ve been reflecting on it for a couple of weeks now, because over the past few years…