Some days, making a blog worthwhile requires a considerable contribution of time and analytical energy on the part of the blogger; other days, it requires nothing more than posting the right link.  Today is one of the latter sort.  If THL readers are going to devote some of their web time this week to staying abreast of what's happening at the intersection education, technology, and the humanities, their best bet is to check out the special Digital Campus issue that The Chronicle of Higher Education published a few days ago.

There's more on offer in the Digital Campus features than I can cover here, but suffice it to say that The Chronicle has served up a perfect end-of-the-academic-year read for anyone interested in a well-rounded discussion of technologies in and of the classroom.  Collectively, the pieces survey the changing landscape of education and try to solve the riddle of where we're going before we get there.  That new technologies will continue to reshape the learning and teaching environment in higher ed is taken as a given; the question that emerges across the articles is that of how to best and--ideally--most gracefully be sure that those technologies are serving educational aims rather than the other way around.

A few "must reads" that pick up topics we regularly cover in this space include:  Josh Keller on the easily underestimated difficulties of providing a digital campus with an adequate IT infrastructure; Jennifer Howard on a few pioneering steps toward the academic library of the future; Ryan Cordell's guide to new technologies that actually serve pedagogy; and of course, Kathleen Fitzpatrick's primer piece on the digital humanities.

That's the required reading for the week, class.  Get to it.