Cathy was quoted last week in an Inside Higher Ed article exploring Faculty Attitudes on Technology. “We should all be thinking of more interactive, human, creative, student-centered ways of teaching that help prepare students for the current world where, since April 22, 1993, anyone with a connection to the Internet has the capacity to think … Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Attitudes on Technology
Cathy Davidson was featured on the “Ask an Expert” column in August 2013. You can read the full article on the New York Times, or read below. By NICOLE HIGGINS DeSMET Published: August 28, 2013 33 Comments This week’s Ask an Expert features Cathy N. Davidson, a professor of English and interdisciplinary studies at Duke University, who … New York Times: Advice for Middle-Age Seekers of MOOCs (or Other Courses)
Cathy authored this “Daily Focus” article for VoicesTODAY. You can read the full article on their website. On April 22, 1993, the computer scientists who developed the Mosaic 1.0 browser decided that the Internet should be available to all of us. Before that, it was mostly computer programmers, scientists, university professors and government officials … TODAY: Why Are We Teaching Likes It’s 1992?
“The History and Future of Higher Education” is a multi-institutional collaborative project initiated by the HASTAC alliance, under leadership of Cathy Davidson, which is coordinating the teaching of a number of diverse courses, workshops, and reading groups, in different locations and online, on the future of higher education beginning in January of 2014. At the … MOOC Interventions: The History and Future of (Mostly Higher) Education
Cathy Davidson joined the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors in July 2012. She had previously organized and hosted the “Storming the Academy” with her students at the 2010 Mozilla Festival, collaborated on the development of Mozilla Open Badges, and actively advised Mozilla on the development of ‘web literacy’ skills map. Mozilla’s original announcement page Mozilla’s townhall … First educator on Board of Mozilla
The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) is the world’s first and oldest academic social network. Cathy N. Davidson is cofounder and director of this network of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning for the 21st century. Since 2002, HASTAC (“haystack”) has served … Co-Founder HASTAC, Changing the Way We Teach and Learn 2002-present
The Digital Media and Learning Competition is an effort designed to find and to inspire the most novel uses of new media in support of learning. Over the past 5 years, the Competition has awarded $10 million to more than 100 projects in 20 countries that explore how technologies—including games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, … HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition
In 1998, President Nannerl Keohane and Provost John Strobehn appointed Cathy Davidson as the first full-time Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University (and the first in the nation). The mission, defined broadly, was to underline Duke’s commitment to increasing academic and administrative effectiveness in interdisciplinary teaching and research and create new cost, administrative, … First Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
In 2003, there was not a single known educational use for the iPod. Apple approached Duke University about giving laptops or multimedia suites to students as part of an Apple Digital Campus initiative. Cathy Davidson recommended that Duke select iPods because students loved them and it would challenge students to think about pedagogical uses of … iPod Experiment
Duke Professors Cathy N. Davidson and David F. Bell co-created the Duke PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge in 2012 to supplement the education of PhD and MFA students, primarily but not exclusive in the human and social sciences, with a range of digital technologies, workshops on digital self-presentation and publication, and multimodal and multimedia scholarly … PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge