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Update

  • Digital Dartmouth has engaged more than 500 Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students through group discussions, public lectures, and the strategic planning website.
  • Our research, coupled with extensive conversations with faculty, students, and staff yielded rich data about the current status of technology at Dartmouth and our aspirations for the future.
  • Our work will culminate in a report to the strategic planning steering and advisory committees in late spring 2012.

Discussion

What technology would you like to see Dartmouth implement or strengthen?

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Should Dartmouth use online/blended education? If so, how?

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How can we improve Dartmouth's web and digital presence (websites, scholarly resources, social media, etc.)?

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Overall Approach

The Senior Executive Strategic Planning Advisory Committee (SE-SPAC) has launched the Digital Dartmouth working group to focus on the central role of technology in shaping Dartmouth's future.  Given the cross-cutting nature of technology, this group will coordinate closely with all other working groups and seek broad input from within and outside Dartmouth. They will examine technology trends, needs and opportunities that will be vital to Dartmouth’s future success. Individual schools and departments will be asked by their deans and directors to engage in discussions focusing on departmental, divisional and school-specific strengths and approaches to complement the more general conversation. 

Download the complete Working Group overview (PDF)

Membership

 

Working Groups

Headlines

Online startup seeks to rival the Ivy League

Ben Nelson's online university, the Minerva Project (http://theminervaproject.org/), is described, along with Western Governors University (http://www.wgu.edu/), Sebastian Thrun's Udacity (http://www.udacity.com/), and New Charter University (http://new.edu/).
Reuters, April 4, 2012. Read here »

Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?

The directors of Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities (http://c21u.gatech.edu/) describe some disruptive ideas they are examining:
- online learning which does not try to replicate the classroom experience;
- highly tuned curricula and value indices allowing learners to calculate return-on-investment, including non-monetary returns;
- students-teaching-students peer-tutoring process taking place in real time;
- highly technical blogs allowing rapid peer review of research;
- assessment of all types using social networks.
 Chronicle of Higher Education, March 7, 2012. Read here »
 

The Rise of the New Groupthink

Collaboration is in. But it may not be conducive to creativity. New York Times, January 15, 2012. Read here »

Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle

A study of Bell Labs offers a number of lessons about how our country’s technology companies — and our country’s longstanding innovative edge — actually came about. New York Times, Feb 26, 2012. Read here »

What digital literacy is and why it matters in higher education

Developing digital literacy in higher education: live chat. The Guardian, March 4, 2012. Visit here »
 

Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work

Keys to effective collaboration. New Yorker, Jan 30, 2012. Read here »

Colleges looking beyond the lecture

Pedagogy uses technology to evolve. Washington Post, Feb 15, 2012. Read here »

A Nonprofit Publisher Puts Another Nail in the $200 Textbook Coffin

OpenStax launched by Rice U. Inside Higher Ed, Feb 7, 2012. Read here »

Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching

Launch of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 5, 2012. Read here »

Tuck School of Business | What to Expect from Technology in 2012

Presented by Eric Johnson. Read here »

Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms | DMLcentral

Cathy Davidson's blog about the 4th "R". Read here »

Podcast: Joshua Kim on Building Relationships Between For-Profit and Non-Profit Institutions. | EDUCAUSE

Josh also talks about some of the biggest challenges facing higher ed in the coming decade. Listen here »

‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration

Culture and technology are changing how some scientists are working. NYTimes Jan 17, 2102. Read here »

Postrel: How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy

Bloomberg.com, January 6, 2012. Read here »

The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality - what long-form scholarship in the digital age really means.

Stanley Fish, New York Times blog, January 9, 2012. Read here »

Debating the Flipped Classroom at Stanford

Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/5/2012.  Read here »

The Frontier of Classroom Technology - Room for Debate

Do social media, interactive whiteboards and other recent innovations benefit students? What are the downsides?  New York Times, 1/3/2012

5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012

Read more in Campus Technology, 1/9/2012

Physicists Seek to Lose the Lecture as Teaching Tool: NPR

More on  moving past the lecture model Read here »

Northeastern University Expands its Geographic Reach

Link to 12/28/11 New York Times article Read here »

M.I.T. Expands Free Online Courses

Link to 12/19/11 New York Times article Read here »

Future of Assessment, Accreditation and the Internet

This is about an experiment in accreditation in an online context.  Read here »

Domestic Grantmaking: Digital Media and Learning - MacArthur Foundation

Second of two relevant MacArthur posts.  Read here »

Exploring Digital Media and Learning

First of two relevant MacArthur posts: Download PDF »

The blending of online teaching

New commentary from Cathy Davidson Read commentary »

Using games and digital media to engage girls in computing

Inspiration and engagement: good things  Read here »

"Now You See It"

Josh Kim reviews Davidson's book on IHE   Read reviews »

Adding the Arts to STEM equals STEAM

Letting of STEAM at Montserrat College of Art Read here »

HASTAC feedback

More acces to HASTAC feedback. View feedback »

Dan Atkins' HASTAC Keynote

Great powerpoint slides for Atkins' keynote about infrastructure at http://tinyurl.com/hastac-atkins

Duderstadt Center - "The Dude"

As discussed at the 12/6 DD meeting, here is the site for "The Dude" at U Michigan, along with an intro of some of the work produced there. Go to site

HASTAC: A post-conference overview by Cathy Davidson

A great introduction!  Read overview »

Predicting the Future of Computing

The New York Times invites readers to make predictions and edit this timeline. Read here »

Khan Academy Receives $5 Million to Accelerate the Reinvention of Education

For those who are watching, Khan has gotten another $5 million in funding. The press release, with some pretty concise descriptions of their activities and aspirations. Read Press Release »

Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world.

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. 
Watch Video »

A Conversation With Our Student Hacker Club

A quick take on Digital Dartmouth’s student focus group.
Read »

Grad Students and Digital Education

Write-up of Digital Dartmouth’s discussion with graduate students.
Read »

Mobile IT in Higher Education

Interesting report about mobile - looks like most are going slow.
Read »

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Meetings

05.10.12
Joint F-SPAC/SE-SPAC meeting
05.08.12
Eighth Students of the Future working group meeting
05.07.12
Ninth Leading Voices in Higher Education speaker Jonathan Cole on The Great American University
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