ANN ARBOR, MI - The story I told at the 2011 meeting of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) conference is rooted in my pedagogical practices of using digital media technology to cultivate communities of learning in the classroom. The story itself is told at a moment of intense transformation in education as we move from a culture of print scholarship to that of digital scholarship. The main thesis of the presentation is that by drawing on the best virtues of both print and digital scholarship a new educational model capable of transforming the culture of the university itself can be developed.
In the presentation, I attempt to articulate how I have sought to translate those pedagogical practices associated with digital scholarship -- openness and collaboration - with those practices associated with print scholarship -- careful review and the certification of expertise -- into both my scholarly and my administrative practices.
In the presentation I did not have enough time to talk about the details of the work we are doing in the College of the Liberal Arts to cultivate a digital culture of scholarship. When I started as Associate Dean, we hired John Dolan at Director of Digital Media and Pedagogy in the College. Last summer we held our first Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology workshop for faculty and graduate students in the Liberal Arts. John has been working with both faculty and staff to find new ways to use digital media to enrich our work in the College of the Liberal Arts.
I invite you to click on the audio below the embedded slides to listen to the presentation and to click the embedded slides along with the recording.
Resources
Pedagogy
- Teaching Rubric (pdf) for Blogs
- Abstract on my article in Teaching Philosophy entitled: "Cultivating Communities of Learning with Digital Media: Cooperative Education through Blogging and Podcasting."
- Videos by Christopher Long related to teaching and learning with technology.
Research
- The Digital Dialogue | iTunesU Stream
- The Digital Dialogue Facebook page
- The Digital Dialogue Wiki (full list of episodes)
- The Digital Dialogue on Google Plus
- Abstract of my article on the Protagoras and the episode of the Digital Dialogue that discusses it.
Administration
- Digital Research in the Liberal Arts: This blog is co-authored by faculty in the College of the Liberal Arts doing academic scholarship using digital media.
- Instructional Space at Penn State Task Force Blog: This blog is part of our attempt to up a university wide discussion about instructional space and scheduling. It is an example of how I have sought to use what I learned in my teaching with technology in my administrative work.
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