Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Education

1. Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Education! Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons, MLA 2014!

2. Slides and References! •  http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/! •  Twitter: @frostdavis! •  #mla13 #s3!

3. DH and Liberal Education! Alexander & Davis. “Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.!

4. NITLE Survey of Digital Humanities at Liberal Arts Colleges! •  AY 2012-2013: survey & interviews! •  Current results! –  32 institutions! –  50 responses! •  Questions! –  Activities! –  Support! –  curriculum! faculty library administrator IT museum

5. Curricular Structure! •  Of 32 institutions surveyed: ! – 1 has a major, minor, or program! – 4 have a digital humanities course, e.g., Introduction to Digital Humanities! – 23 have courses with some Digital Humanities!

6. Why DH? (individual)!

7. Digital Pedagogy   in the Humanities:     Models, Keywords, Prototypes!

8. Digital Humanities as Scholarship! •  •  •  •  •  Future of scholarship (new methodologies)! Individual faculty interest! Assignment level! Course level! Department level!

9. Playing with Text Analysis! h5p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reﬂecAons-‐on-‐a-‐text-‐analysis-‐assignment/

10. Keywords! •  •  •  •  Play! Failure! Text Analysis! Visualization!

11. Lexomics, Wheaton College! •  Computer science, statistics & Old English texts! •  Connections! •  English-Computer Science TeamTeaching! –  Computing for Poets (Comp 131)! –  Connection (Computing and Texts)!

12. Citizens for a Globally Networked World! •  Digital Literacies! •  Multiliteracies (New London Group)! •  Digital skills and practices!

13. Situating the Global Environment! •  Lewis & Clark College! •  https://sge.lclark.edu/ ! •  Jim Proctor, “Situated Social Learning”! •  Interdisciplinary environmental research! •  Situated research! –  Local focus on global issues!

14. Social learning! •  •  •  •  Document research process! Share research resources! Share references ! Aggregate projects on blog! –  –  –  –  Maps! Tags! Concept maps! Mashups! Place-‐based, Collabora/on, Praxis, Community, Fieldwork, Mul/modal, Composi/on, Storytelling

15. Pedagogical Experimentation ! •  Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics, ed. Brett Hirsch, 2013! •  http:// www.openbookpublishers.com /reader/161 !

16. Liberal Education:   Essential Learning Outcomes! •  Intellectual and practical skills, like –  –  –  –  –  –  !! Inquiry and analysis! Critical and creative thinking! Written and oral communication! Quantitative literacy! Information literacy! Teamwork and problem solving! •  Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world; ! •  personal and social responsibility, including civic knowledge and engagement both locally and globally; ! •  integrative and applied learning. !

17. High Impact Prac.ces (Kuh) •  First-‐Year Seminars and Experiences •  Common Intellectual Experience •  Learning CommuniAes •  WriAng-‐Intensive Courses •  CollaboraAve Assignments and Projects •  Undergraduate Research •  Diversity/Global Learning •  Service Learning, Community-‐Based Learning •  Internships •  Capstone Courses and Projects

18. Digital Humanities as   Liberal Arts Mission! •  Undergraduate research ! •  Pedagogy! –  active & collaborative learning! –  project based & applied learning ! •  Preparing citizens in a networked world ! •  Interdisciplinary work & integrative learning! •  Civic engagement & place-based learning!

19. Undergraduate Research! •  Student-faculty collaborative research! •  Tasks in expertise range of students! •  Meaningful contributions! ! Chris Blackwell & Tom MarAn, “Technology, CollaboraAon, and Undergraduate Research.” Digital Humani/es Quarterly 3, no. 1 (2009).

20. The Homer Multitext Project! The Venutus A manuscript

21. Undergrad Sourcing!

22. Keywords! •  Collaboration! •  Work! •  Praxis! The Oﬃce Monkey by Flickr user Shaz Wildcat

23. Student Engagement  Public Mission  Liberal Education!

24. Avenues to Engage Undergrads in Digital Humanities! Internship# Work# Thesis/Project# Undergrad#Research# Coursework# 0%# 10%# 20%# 30%# 40%# 50%# 60%# 70%#

25. Enduring Women!

26. Keywords! •  •  •  •  •  GLAM! Public! Multimodal! Composition! Gender!

27. Process Checklist for Integrating Digital Humanities Projects into Courses! 1.  Connecting Course and Project! 2.  Scaffolding and Chunking! 3.  Collaborative Teaching! 4.  Logistics! ! http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/ 2012/09/13/process-checklist-for-integratingdigital-humanities-projects-into-courses/ !

28. Increasing Expertise! Using Digital Resources ContribuAng to Digital Resources Producing Digital Resources

29. Student Marketability! •  •  •  •  What employers want! AAC&U survey! Pannapacker article! Teamwork!

30. Online Learning?!

31. Online Learning as Delivery Method! 100% MOOC Massive Open Online Course “Going the Distance: Online EducaAon in the United States” (2011), p. 7.

32. Recruiting? !

33. Thank you! you.! St. Edward’s University!

Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Education

Rebecca Davis

Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Education