National Institute forThe 2012 NITLE Summit and Symposium
The 2012 NITLE Summit will gather senior leaders from liberal arts colleges, non-profit organizations, business, government, and foundations to address issues strategically important to liberal education. Topics will include teaching, learning, and research in the digital humanities; open educational resources; scholarly communication; and shared academics. Dr. Alan Kay, NITLE Fellow and president of Viewpoints Research Institute, will deliver the keynote address.
The 2012 NITLE Symposium will address the implications of strategic issues on campus practice, focusing on innovations extensible across liberal arts campuses. The Symposium offers faculty, technologists, librarians, and administrators from liberal arts colleges and universities in the NITLE Network a forum for open, cross-professional exchange. Dr. Dan Cohen, associate professor of history and art history at George Mason University and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, will deliver the keynote address.
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Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History, Wheaton College, member of NITLE’s Digital Humanities Council and the member of the program committee for the Digital Scholarship Seminars responds to the recent post, “Can Humanities Undergrads Learn to Code?” Since students in my own courses learn the basics of XML and TEI markup, ...
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A recent NITLE Digital Scholarship Seminar, “Teaching DH 101: Introduction to the Digital Humanities” prompts a response from two undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh. We were surprised to hear during the December 16, 2011 NITLE web seminar on undergraduate digital humanities (DH) instruction a recurring motif along the lines that ...
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With the new academic year now well under way, I want to take a moment to update you on recent activity at NITLE. Our organization, I’m pleased to report, continues on a positive trajectory. Let me draw your attention to some specific developments that are advancing our mission to help liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. Read Dr. King’s full letter. -
On September 9th, Lee Cuba, former dean of Wellesley College, Katie Conboy, vice president for academic affairs at Stonehill College, and Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at NITLE, delivered a trio of talks at a Trinity University symposium on the changing landscape of liberal arts education. The symposium was sponsored by Trinity Tomorrow, the university’s strategic planning committee.
