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By Cathy Davidson on Jun 11th, 2013
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There are so many myths out there about MOOCs that I decided to teach one in Winter/Spring 2014.   I've been an advocate of open, peer-to-...
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By Cathy Davidson on Jun 9th, 2013
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The always interesting and controversial Jaron Lanier has a very clear and pointed op ed in today's New York Times, "Fixing the Digital Economy":...
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By Cathy Davidson on Jun 7th, 2013
Steve Kolowich reports this morning on a new study of MOOC participation in Forums that suggests about 90% don't participate except by lurking---but...
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By Cathy Davidson on Jun 7th, 2013
THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION  [Updated 6/13/2013]ISIS 640   Spring 2014 Duke UniversityProfessor Cathy N. Davidson...
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By Cathy Davidson on Jun 4th, 2013
There are at least two important pedagogical motivations for open, peer teaching and learning.
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By Cathy Davidson on May 30th, 2013
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In the classic bildungsroman--the novel of the "building" or "education" of the hero or heroine--there is often a parallel between the institutions...
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By Cathy Davidson on May 21st, 2013
Here's a thoughtful blog post about how to use technology in the classroom wisely.  It may seem  obvious, but these are not always the...
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By Cathy Davidson on May 21st, 2013
Yesterday #Duke21C met again, two weeks after the end of the semester to take our book manuscript to the next level and make dozens of collective...
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By Cathy Davidson on May 15th, 2013
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This is a first draft of the storyboard outline for The History and Future of Higher Education, my six-week Coursera course that will begin...
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By Cathy Davidson on May 10th, 2013
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This is a formal invitation for anyone, at any level, to join several of us--it's becoming a small army!--in distributed team-teaching of many...
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Co-founder, HASTAC; Co-PI, HASTAC, MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition; Twitter handle @CathyNDavidson. Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies. Author, "Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century" (Viking).
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