1. Undergraduates as Public Digital
Scholars
AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 24, 2013

2. Panelists
• Rebecca Davis, Program Officer for the
Humanities, National Institute for Technology in
Liberal Education
• Jeffrey McClurken, Chair and Associate Professor of
History and American Studies, University of Mary
Washington
• James Proctor, Professor, Environmental Studies
Program, Lewis and Clark College
• Daniel Chamberlain, Director, Center for Digital
Learning and Research, Occidental College

3. NITLE www.nitle.org
• National Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education
• NITLE helps liberal arts colleges integrate
inquiry, pedagogy, and technology.
• Issues facing liberal arts colleges
• Issues arising from community

4. Globally Networked World
Global Network by Flickr User WebWizzard

6. Participatory Culture
• Low barriers to artistic expression and civic
engagement
• Strong support for creating and sharing one’s
creations
• Informal mentorship by most experienced for
novices
• Members believe their contributions matter
• Some degree of social connection
Henry Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory
Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

7. Three Challenges for Education
• Participation gap
• Transparency problem
• Ethics challenge

8. Learning for a
World of Webs and Networks

9. Structural Barriers
• Classroom as safe, protected space
• FERPA & privacy concerns
• Control & authority of instructor
• Wall of classroom & campus
• Risk of public failure
• Credit for work; copyright

10. 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.

11. High Impact Practices (Kuh)
• First-Year Seminars and • Undergraduate
Experiences Research
• Common Intellectual • Diversity/Global
Experience Learning
• Learning Communities • Service
• Writing-Intensive Learning, Community-
Courses Based Learning
• Collaborative • Internships
Assignments and • Capstone Courses and
Projects Projects

12. Public Digital Scholarship

13. Teaching Undergraduate Public
Digital Scholarship
• James Proctor, Professor, Environmental Studies
Program, Lewis and Clark College
• Daniel Chamberlain, Director, Center for Digital
Learning and Research, Occidental College
• Jeffrey McClurken, Chair and Associate Professor of
History and American Studies, University of Mary
Washington