Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 25, 2009, 08:02 AM

"Open means that there are opportunities to learn," says Curtis J. Bonk, author of The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (Jossey-Bass) in an interview with Scott Jaschik in today's Inside Higher Education. Bonk isn't by any means arguing that the "digital divide" is now closed. Access is only as open as the society that embraces it. Still he is looking at the many different ways that higher education is making use of open access as a pedagogical model that can not only transform what we teach but our relationship, through that teaching, to the larger world--and vice versa.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 16, 2009, 04:25 PM

This posting from Japan comes somewhere in the middle of a night (jetlag rules!) in Osaka, before moving to Tokyo where I will be conducting several interviews for The Rewired Brain:  The Deep Structure of Thinking for the Information Age, the book I'm finishing on cognition and digitality and that Viking Press will publish in either late 2010 or early 2011. 

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 28, 2008, 10:43 AM
What is a discipline? Maybe it is the space-time of slowing down and going inward, having a conversation of such specificity and reference that only others in one's group understand. In the reading I'm doing this year, it is fascinating to see how often researchers move in and out of disciplines, sometimes addressing a wider audience and then, at others, being unable to resist the temptation to dally, linger, probe, analyze, scrutinize, challenge, and caress the disciplinary object.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 01, 2008, 08:19 AM
One question I am asked most frequently by social scientists and scientists is why humanists stand at the podium and read their papers outloud. Good question. Here are my thoughts on that subject.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 07, 2007, 12:04 PM
One of Julie Klein's students asked me to fill out a survey about blogging as part of her class project on "Integration" for the Wayne State University In|Formation Year contribution. Here's what I wrote in answer to her question on blogging and tenure and promotion.