Instead of a conventional graduate class on “21st Century Literacies: Digital Knowledge, Digital Humanities,” Davidson and her class collaborated on a book that would guide others trying to adapt the methods of open source programming to open source learning, Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open … Students write book together instead of term paper
Davidson has been a national leader in proposing, exploring, designing, and utilizing new forms of assessment, ranging from badging to contract grading to peer-to-peer assessments (gaining notoriety with a blog “How To Crowdsource Grading”). http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/how-crowdsource-grading Erica Hendry, “Duke Professor Uses ‘Crowdsourcing’ to Grade,” Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2009. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/duke-professor-uses-crowdsourcing-to-grade/7538
Matt Richtel, “Blogs vs. Term Papers,” New York Times, January 20, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/muscling-in-on-the-term-paper-tradition.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/01/21/should-we-really-abolish-term-paper-response-ny-times