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Humane Ingenuity 36: 15% Faster

Dan Cohen

Mittell wonders aloud about his experiments: Are they acts of scholarship? The use of advanced technology, in short, can open up broad interpretive avenues. Here’s the full article, “ Deformin’ in the Rain: How (and Why) to Break a Classic Film ,” which is currently in “preview” mode in Digital Humanities Quarterly.

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The Humanities are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift

Inside Higher Ed

I think it is fair to say that we are in the midst of a historic paradigm shift within the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. A growing body of highly influential scholarship embodied and disseminated the new perspectives. Ideas and language previously confined to campuses started to percolate into the broader culture.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

According to a recent survey by Intelligent, 50% of admissions offices are using AI to streamline some of their screening processes, a number that is only expected to grow as the technology for algorithms and machine learning improves. Ryan Motevalli-Oliner, associate dean for enrollment operations at Kenyon, doesn’t see that changing.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Q&A with chair of the National Endowment of the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Shelly Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed this week about what it is like to be the first Native American chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities , the federal agency charged with supporting research and education in the humanities. There is no one moment where you think, “Oh, that’s humanities!”

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Defining Quality Learning at Cengage

Today's Learner

It informs every decision we make as we design learning content—what topics to cover in a textbook, what activities and assessments learners will complete and how all of those elements are sequenced. Learners in an automotive technology program need to practice diagnosing and repairing issues in realistic situations. Learners in a U.S.