Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

HASTAC Scholars: Learning the Future Together

A university scholarship program encourages students to use technology to communicate across disciplines.

How to Crowdsource Grading

Professor Cathy Davidson experiments with unconventional grading systems to prepare students to be digital citizens.

Davidson & Goldberg: Digital Media and Learning Competition Update

HASTAC’s co-founders celebrate the closing of another Digital Media and Learning Competition and note the progress of projects supported under the inaugural competition.

Cathy Davidson: TechnoTravels/Telemobility, HASTAC on the Move

HASTAC’s co-founder reflects on the highlights of their recent conference: education, inspiration, curiosity, and awe.

[Reblogged] Cathy Davidson: When ‘No’ Means ‘Try Again’

Winners were announced last week in the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. Here we reblog Cathy Davidson’s piece from the HASTAC blog on the challenges of providing comments and feedback to proposals that did not receive an award.

Inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition Selects Winning Projects

HASTAC announces seventeen winners in the first Digital Media and Learning Competition. To see a list of winners and their project descriptions visit the competition website at http://www.dmlcompetition.net.

Competition Closes with Over 1000 Entries

The application deadline for the Digital Media and Learning Competition closed this week with an unprecedented response. In this post Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg report in on the swell of interest in 2.0 learning. The Competition will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning.

Cathy Davidson: Digital Learning Is Not I.T.

Feedback from the Competition in Digital Media and Learning launch prompts this HASTAC leader to analyze “digital learning” versus “instructional technology.”

Early Days of Competition Draw Crowd

Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg of HASTAC (www.hastac.org) report in on the interest generated by the launch of the Digital Media and Learning Competition last week. The Competition will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning.

The Future of Learning Institutions

It is time to consider how learning institutions can be transformed and supported in new distributed configurations.

Davidson & Goldberg: The Future of Learning Institutions

We are faced today by a pressing question: How do institutions—social, civic, educational—transform in response to and in order to promote new kinds of learning in the information age? —by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg

Cathy Davidson on “Performing Civic Engagement”

Civic engagement comes in many forms and not all of them have to do with voting booths.

Cathy Davidson: Relearning How to Learn

I hope MacArthur supports some risky projects where the learning potential is enormous even if the possibility of failure is high, and puts its clout and impeccable reputation behind the visionary.

Cathy Davidson: The Future of Institutions: Skunkworks!

At the MacArthur launch, someone mentioned the “skunkworks model”—my favorite tactic for institional innovation.  The name comes from a moonshine factory in the Lil Abner cartoons.  Shine on!