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Educator + Infonista + Historian: Resolutions for 2013
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Laura J. French. Since yesterday's post means that 2012 is officially over (I wish! Working in academia there are no clean year end breaks - especially outside of the classroom), the plans for 2013 can begin! So since I'm always hatching some 'scathingly brilliant' plan ( 2pts for recognizing the quote) allow me to update you on a few of mine for 2013. 1 Rock an internship with Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. 3 Pull off the William Morris Exhibit. 5 Get a full time job that allows ...
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Educator + Infonista + Historian: November 2012
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Laura J. French. Publishing in the Digital Age. This week I've edited and republished several previous posts as part of my LBSC 751 Final. Previously I wrote about DH being a public service. And the difficulty that humanities scholars have created for themselves by only viewing other scholars as their primary audience. This week’s readings for LBSC 751 follow right along that thread by examining humanities publication in this digital age. 8221; from Writing history in the digital age. Maybe, though, we c...
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Educator + Infonista + Historian: DHWI: Teaching through Multimedia
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Laura J. French. DHWI: Teaching through Multimedia. Way back in January I had the opportunity to attend Digital Hu. Host ed by MITH. I was/am t he grateful recipient of a UMD Libraries. Scholarship which paid my registration fees. The course Teaching through Multimedia. I had the opportunity to practice with some new soft ware, but hon estly the class. DHSI's " Digital Ped agogy in the Humanities. Ideas about "digital studies". The y traced communication from oral to literate/written. You ask. Well ,...
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Educator + Infonista + Historian: December 2012
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Laura J. French. Today I pitch my research idea for the DH Incubator. The University of Maryland Libraries. Have held a series of workshops on getting started in the Digital Humanities this last semester. The last workshop (today's) is the pitch for attendees DH projects. For my proposal explain that I would like to examine "the information seeking behaviors of humanities instructors for digital resources" in librarian speak. Or "what makes DH useful for instruction" for everyone else. Links to this post.
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The Good MOOC: Meet the edtech entrepreneurs - An interview with Mike Feerick
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News, Interviews, Analysis and Opinions on Massive Open Online Courses and Open Online Education. Tuesday, 12 November 2013. Meet the edtech entrepreneurs - An interview with Mike Feerick. Long before the Stanford AI Class. Before the acronym “ MOOC. 8221; was even coined, ALISON. A free e-learning company was set up in Ireland. S founder and CEO, fresh from winning an innovation award at the Wise. Can you introduce yourself? I was raised in. From Harvard. I then. Can you introduce ALISON. I think it is ...
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The Good MOOC: A review of Codecademy
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News, Interviews, Analysis and Opinions on Massive Open Online Courses and Open Online Education. Friday, 5 April 2013. A review of Codecademy. Launched at the end of 2011,. Is a free interactive online platform dedicated to computer programming. News of its initial $2.5 million venture capital round was initially received with some. Initiative gathered a significant amount of media attention, in part due to a tweet from Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York:. Its piecemeal approach makes Codecademy.
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The Good MOOC: A review of Open2Study
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News, Interviews, Analysis and Opinions on Massive Open Online Courses and Open Online Education. Friday, 28 June 2013. A review of Open2Study. Is a MOOC platform. Launched in April 2013 by Open Universities Australia. A twenty-year-old online education collaborative of several Australian universities. The specificities of Open2Study. The courses are sourced from the Australian universities involved with the Open Universities consortium but also from corporate partners such as Enterprise Architects.
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The Good MOOC: A review of the Stanford AI Class
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News, Interviews, Analysis and Opinions on Massive Open Online Courses and Open Online Education. Friday, 17 May 2013. A review of the Stanford AI Class. It all started with an email. Sebastian Thrun. A Computer Science Professor at Stanford University. Announced to the 1,000 recipients of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Mailing list that he would be offering his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Class for free on the web. While Massive Open Online Courses. Was entir...
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The Good MOOC: November 2013
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News, Interviews, Analysis and Opinions on Massive Open Online Courses and Open Online Education. Friday, 22 November 2013. Meet the expert - An interview with Seann Dikkers. Struggle with criticisms about completion rate. Gets a different perspective from gamification expert Seann Dikkers, who researches, writes, and shares the usefulness of. Digital media for teaching and learning. As the founder and director of. Can you introduce yourself? Can you introduce Gaming Matter. Is a fine example that trains...
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The Good MOOC: Are MOOCs becoming "just online courses"?
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News, Interviews, Analysis and Opinions on Massive Open Online Courses and Open Online Education. Wednesday, 26 June 2013. Are MOOCs becoming "just online courses"? In the short video below, Dave Cormier. Who coined the term Massive Open Online Course. Explains what the term meant to him at the end of 2010:. Have moved away from being exclusively connectivist. Dave Cormier. Describes an open environment where students learn primarily from each other. The overwhelming majority of MOOCs. Coursera - CS101 I...
