Stanford's "Humanities 3.0: Tooling Up for Digital Humanities" is a humanist-aimed site intended to be a starting point for scholars seeking to explore the digital tools available to them without prior experience or expertise.
Sebastiaan Farber (Oberlin Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College) explains the school's decision to commit to Open Access from an insider's perspective.
The digital "gift" economy meets OpenCourseWare with a new institution called Peer 2 Peer University, which allows volunteers to teach uncredited free courses.
Open Access journals, the response to Open Access courseware, promise to be an invaluable tool for the free online open academic community. Reception has been mixed, however, due to fears of poor quality and high publishing fees.
This month’s Berkeley Books selection by Professor of History and Classics Erich S. Gruen, is one of those rare works that—as the title suggests—radically challenges pervasive assumptions in its field: in this case, the prevailing consensus that Greeks, Romans, and Jews understood themselves primarily in contrast to the so-called Other.
DHAnswers (Digital Humanities Answers) leverages the knowledge and interest of the in-crowd of humanities experts and specialists to reproduce this community online while offering instant answers to anyone who asks questions.
Recorded history has often disenfranchised or even wholly ignore the disenfranchised, oppressed, and inconvenient voices as defined by the various social orders. Today, the internet preserves the story of even those who would be most voiceless among us.
A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities is a community publication project aimed at broadening participants' knowledge of and skill in digital humanities through self-reflection and journaling.
Now that a federal judge denied Google the right to digitize all of the world's books, a goal dating back to the company's founding, we should step back and consider what a universal online library should look like.
The use of digital tools in the classroom is finally getting notoriety. And while skeptics will argue that some of these new tools won't pan out as anything more than novelties in the classroom, more or less the same can be (and always has been) said of any number of traditional teaching strategies.
