Submitted by Michael J Kramer on Sep 10, 2009, 12:37 PM

Timothy Burke's schools us with his fabulous imaginings of a college curriculum.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 05, 2009, 08:06 PM
"What if you could combine Wikipedia?s collaborative production strategy with the peer-review standards of a respected academic journal?"  This is the question that Professor Susan Brown, Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and at Guelph University, asks in a new grant of over a million dollars funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation's Leading Edge Fund.  The grant supports the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, the logical follow-on to the groundbreaking Orlando Project.   Scholarship 2.0.   This is the next big idea and Professor Brown and her team are the people most likely to make it happen.  Congratulations, Susan!

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 03, 2009, 12:27 PM
Excellent piece in INSIDE HIGHER ED by Scot McLemee on our own hybrid publishing moment in scholarly publishing.  It's not all electronic, it's not all conventional print, we're at a "tension point."  Read it here:  http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee244

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

Submitted by jonippolito on Apr 09, 2009, 12:24 PM
Academia's goal may be the free exchange of ideas, but up to now many universities have been wary--if not downright dismissive--of their professors using the Internet and other digital media to supercharge that exchange. Yet in a signal that digital scholarship is the future, the latest issue of MIT's Leonardo magazine showcases the recently approved academic guidelines of the University of Maine's New Media Department as a model for other universities to consider.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 16, 2009, 09:49 AM
Today, a new, international competition called the Digging into Data Challenge was announced by four leading research agencies: the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada.  The Digging into Data Challenge encourages humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis, challenging scholars to develop international partnerships and explore vast digital resources, including electronic repositories of books, newspapers, and photographs to identify new opportunities for scholarship. 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 13, 2008, 04:03 PM
Harvard's recent Open Access publishing mandate makes me think about what it would look like to make a national, interoperable open archive, across all of the libraries, across all the electronic archives, and that took into consideration production as well as consumption in its general business plan. Can't we all get along? (Aphorism for the day: We are all interconnected. You cannot starve one person in the food chain and expect to have a banquet at the end.)

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 11, 2008, 08:34 PM
Is knowledge ever free? Are there unseen workers laboring in those fields who are ripped off if we, as consumers, demand free and open access to scholarly journals? We need to be thinking through production as well as consumption in new and interesting ways.