Tag: university

  • Starting a war….

    This term I did a little experiment with some readings on contemporary networked warfare and learning in my HI2007, War, State and Society option. I staged the discussion in the first week to see if different sequences of readings might produce different discussions. It didn’t, but it was an interesting week.

  • Harvard “Exam” “Cheating” Scandal rumbles on

    The Great Harvard Cheating Scandal of 2012 rumbles on, with more details emerging which make it seem to me that it was neither “cheating” nor was it an “examination”.  Regardless of what the official course syllabus stipulates, contradictory guidance from a professor and 4 teaching assistants, along with accepted practice and failures to catch this…

  • A Broader Digital Humanities?

    I chanced across an discussion last night on twitter which aligns with a problem I have been considering – how can the digital humanities include social sciences and science, if at all?  This relates to the question of creating an undergraduate curriculum of some sort in Digital Humanities which would be truly interdisciplinary, that would work for…

  • Networks and “National” universities

    Some people still cling to the idea that an academic department is a tight box on an organisation chart, but those days are fast dying, and now a department is more like a clump on a network diagram with an increasingly diverse range of connections to other disciplines and institutions. It is true that for…

  • Anatomy of Indecision?

    Batt O’Keeffee must be the worst Minister of Education in the history of the state, at least insofar as political savvy goes. He failed to defend his portfolio from cuts which increased class sizes, and now he is making every possible wrong choice about the very necessary reintroduction of fees. Having decided it must be…

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