Category: pedagogy
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What are Open Educational Resources?
As the name suggests, Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available resources for learning and teaching, such as documents, videos, syllabi, software, and images. The advantage for educators is that these resources may be deposited, shared and re-used, thus saving time in creating new courses or updating existing methods (also, the promotion of the particular…
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Examples of structured and un-structured data
Here are some examples of structured and unstructured data projects and services (which at times overlap). And remember that data is almost always wrong but sometimes it is useful! Structured data (Pre-defined and machine-readable, is locatable and usually has a relational ‘data model’ and usually is about real-world objects) What is meta-data? (Australian National Data…
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Teaching Digital Humanties: Digital methods elective: Ph.D. Coursework Subject
I have started teaching a PhD coursework subject at the University of Melbourne, the first year that this type of guided professional development has been offered in PhD research. Our contribution is the first Digital Humanities subject in the faculty; it is a lot of fun to design and teach but somewhat experimental. There are…
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E-learning and Digital Cultures
I have just started doing this new course on Coursera. Admittedly I know the content pretty well, however it is the method of delivery that is very interesting indeed. I’ll write a review of their ‘experimental teaching methods’ soon…
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Harold Short ‘Collaborative Scholarship in the Digital Humanities’ Melbourne
Just a reminder that Professor Harold Short will speak in Melbourne this Friday, 27 April 2012. Synopsis: What challenges do arts and humanities scholars face in collaborative interdisciplinary research? This question is significant for the Digital Humanities, whose disciplinary identity and character are intrinsically multidisciplinary. Drawing on the twenty years of experience in multidisciplinary research…
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Teaching the Digital Humanities (Interdisciplinary) Journey
Like many interdisciplinary fields within the humanities, the Digital Humanities consists of a broad range of researchers arriving within its fold from a range of disciplinary practices. These may include disciplines as diverse as Papyrology, Musicology, Classics, Epigraphy, Medieval Studies, history and Classical Archaeology. The Digital Humanities, through its journals, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, conferences,…