The future of liberal education depends upon an integrative vision of digitally-informed learning that is not merely content delivery online but rather is reshaped in the same ways that digital learning has already fundamentally changed our culture. This session will present a vision for the digital transformation of liberal education through a curriculum that scaffolds self-directed, digitally-augmented problem-solving and the institutional strategies to support it.

1. Reconciling Online Learning and
the Liberal Arts College
CIC Online Humanities Consortium, August 8, 2016
Rebecca Frost Davis

2. Slides and References
• http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/
• Twitter:
– @frostdavis
– #CIC2016HUM
@frostdavis

3. @frostdavis

5. Image from The Guardian,
h2ps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/21/pokemon-go-gathering-san-francisco

6. Participatory Culture

8. Emerging Digital Ecosystem
• Shaped by networks, which are fundamentally
social;
• Characterized by horizontal access to creation
and production; and
• Increasingly driven by data, algorithms, and
artificial intelligence that personalize information
for users and inform human judgment
“Open and Integrative”, p. 13

9. @frostdavis

10. @frostdavis

11. @frostdavis

12. Scaffolding Signature Work in
the Emerging Digital
Ecosystem
@frostdavis

13. Critical Reading through Social
Annotation
@frostdavis

14. Playing with Text Analysis
h2p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflecGons-on-a-text-analysis-assignment/
@frostdavis

16. Wikistorming &
Networked
Learning
@frostdavis

17. Storymapping
http://storymapping.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/
@frostdavis

18. Course
Ongoing
digital
project
Virtual Spaces
Intercampus
CollaboraGon
Community
Engagement
@frostdavis

19. Curricular Design Principles
• Learner Centered
• Networked
• Integrative
• Adaptive
“Open and Integrative”, pp. 53ff.

20. Engaging Faculty
• Faculty Development
• Kenyon Essentials Project,
https://cip.kenyon.edu/essentials
– Campus wide conversations
– Pilot Projects funded by grants
– Final reports published online
• LaGuardia E-Portfolio Initiative
– Faculty learning communities
– Journal to publish faculty research

21. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities:
Concepts, Models, and Experiments
• General Editors
– Rebecca Frost Davis, St. Edward's University
– Matthew K. Gold, City Tech & Graduate Center, City
University of New York
– Katherine D. Harris, San José State University
– Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria
• https://github.com/curateteaching/
• #curateteaching

22. Thank you
St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University