Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education | Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education | Taylor Institute for Teaching and LearningUniversal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that guides the design of courses and learning environments to appeal to the largest number of learners. It emphasizes...
What are your thoughts on The Humanities Commons? It is exciting to have an open-access, open-source…
What are your thoughts on The Humanities Commons? It is exciting to have an open-access, open-source, nonprofit alternative for scholarly networking and for providing access to research! I finally got my profile up and running… @humcommons @womeningerman...
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming | Books | The Guardian
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Paper vs. Screen
Wired provides a great round-up of some research comparing screen to paper. Perhaps most surprising – it may be less about the distractions we are exposed to on screen, and more about how a medium lets us know where we are in that text, and how that text is...“Digital Humanities” maps the field
Noticed via a twitter discussion today: The new book Digital Humanities was issued as an Open Access text by the MIT Press. The authors provide a productive definition: Digital Humanities is less a unified field than an array of convergent practices that explore a...Book
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.