Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say – NYTimes.com: “There is a widespread belief among teachers that students’ constant use of digital technology is hampering their attention spans and ability to persevere in the face of challenging tasks, according to two surveys of teachers being released on Thursday.”
New Issue of Culture Machine, Theme – “Paying Attention”: Vol 13 (2012)
“How are the ways we understand subjective experience – not least cognitively – being modulated by political economic rationales? And how might artists, cultural theorists, social scientists and radical philosophers learn to respond – analytically, creatively, methodologically and politically – to the commodification of human capacities of attention? This theme issue of Culture Machine explores these interlinked questions as a way of building upon and opening out contemporary research concerning the economisation of cognitive capacities. “
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com: “Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses — known as MOOCs — a tool for democratizing higher education. While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree. And in what some see as a threat to traditional institutions, several of these courses now come with an informal credential (though that, in most cases, will not be free).
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2012 Recordings – Classroom 2.0: ” Lots of great webinars”
The rise of e-reading | Pew Study
“One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift-giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices such as the original Kindles and Nooks.1 In mid-December 2011, 17% of American adults had reported they read an e-book in the previous year; by February, 2012, the share increased to 21%.”
Introducing the Journal of Digital Humanities
“Late last month saw the debut of the Journal of Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that features ‘the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community’ during the previous quarter. “
Education Innovators: Preaching (as Usual) to the Choir – Next – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Education Innovators: Preaching (as Usual) to the Choir”
