Cathy N. Davidson

Vivek Wadhwa’s article in the May 24th Bloomberg BusinessWeek discusses how the Internet will not rot your brain—or those of your children. Web communications will better connect us all with the world. He’s interviewed Cathy Davidson who dismisses the doomsday scenarios one hears on a daily basis. She says we don’t need new research to…

Cathy Davidson’s article in the Times Higher Ed, wherein she discusses how about 100 years ago, higher education restructured to meet the needs of the industrial age. It has changed little since, even as the internet has transformed life. Another revolution is needed, says Cathy Davidson, to modernise universities and prepare graduates for a 21st-century…

Internet instead of universities? This article features HASTAC and Cathy N. Davidson’s “crowdsourced grading,” and looks at how the web is inspiring a revolution in higher education. Just as we expect easy access to information on the internet, the open education movement is shaking up the traditional education system by making teaching resources available for…

A Duke professor who made national headlines last year in announcing plans to turn grading over to her students has been nominated by President Barack Obama to a…

Professor Cathy Davidson Nominated to National Council on the Humanities The council is a board of 26 private citizens who advise the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). read more >>

At the closing ceremony of the first international Mozilla Drumbeat Festival on “Learning, Freedom, and the Open Web,” Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker announced that five projects previewed at the Festival had been selected for further development by Mozilla, including three presented at HASTAC’s “Storming the Academy” tent.  Mozilla will take these projects forward from the…