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Here's the REAL Scandal of Higher Education

While ... the national news media went berserk around B-list celebrities paying off admissions counselors to get their offspring into elite...

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Reflections on 2 Years of Experiments

This is a transcript of the linked audio file from my HASTAC Showcase presentation at the University of Kansas, May 9, 2019. I was quite rubbish at...

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How Can a Collaborative Online Syllabus Address the Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues?: The #ImmigrationSyllabus, Part I

Throughout my doctoral studies in history at Emory University, I have become increasingly committed to educating current and future policy makers...

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How To Transform a "Talking Heads" Conference Panel Into Active Learning

On April 9, from 330-6pm, we will be hosting live and livestreamed symposium, "Race and Its Futures." Rather than a "talking heads" panel, we are...

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Tidying Your Workspace - LLG3 Online Learning Module

How many times have you tried yet failed to be productive because of an unorganized workspace or overflowing inbox? Our module is focused on guiding...

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Inspecting Influenza: Review of American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia

Inspecting Influenza: Review of American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia . http://www.influenzaarchive.org/index.html ...

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Alien Feminism

Why is it that when we think about the genre of science fiction our minds automatically go to Star Wars or Star Trek? It’s 2019 and yet our society,...

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How Effective Is Your Online Training Content? A Critique of Two Modules (LLG3)

To critique the effectiveness of online learning designs, we participated in two different courses: a training on virtual teams and another on making...

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SJU LLG-1 Comparative Review of Two MOOCs (2019)

Thank you for taking the time to learn from what we have learned! Our group, LLG 1, each viewed two MOOCs provided by edX.org. After the viewings, we...

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ODL 600 LLG-1 Final Project

Hello, Class The link below will connect you to our recorded video of a virtual training module, Step One, that could be could be expanded into a...

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Tangentials

Hello. The following composition was inspired by the construction of a syllabus for a Feminist Theory course in an M.A.T. program in English...

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Reflecting on my HASTAC scholarship

My HASTAC scholarship is soon coming to an end, to welcome a new cohort of passionate Digital Humanists. I wanted to reflect a bit on my own...

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Introducing Feminism into the Classroom: A Syllabus On Women Writers Who Challenge Societal Structures Through Literature

If literature is meant to challenge students by presenting them with different worldviews, then how can secondary and postsecondary educators...

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Coding Pedagogy Collection Released

I'm excited to share that a new digital collection, Coding Pedagogy , has been launched! I contributed a chapter to this collection, but the best...

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Disaster Racism: How Youtube Comments led to an Unplanned Discussion about Race in an Environmental History Class

This past spring semester, I taught a 200-level history class titled “Disaster & Disease: Society and Environment in Latin America, 1450-2017.”...

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Three Ways to Transform Your Lecture Course: Dean Anne Balsamo’s “TechnoCulture”

In this “Progressive Pedagogy Group,” we typically advocate the most engaged, active, student-led forms of learning. However, in the modern academy,...

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