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Mapping the Futures of Higher Education
read more: Mapping the Futures of Higher EducationConceived and taught by Futures Initiative Director Cathy N. Davidson and Graduate Center President Emeritus William P. Kelly, Mapping the Futures of Higher Education was a radically interdisciplinary graduate class that used innovative pedagogy and a new open source online tool to connect and network more than 365 undergraduate students across ten CUNY colleges, each…
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Futures Initiative: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
read more: Futures Initiative: The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkIn July 2014, Cathy Davidson moved to New York to direct the Futures Initiative, a new way of supporting graduate students as the next generation of leaders of institutional and classroom change. The Futures Initiative sponsors events, programs, workshops, and courses all designed to inspire creative, innovative, interactive, peer-led new ways of learning, teaching, and…
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MOOC Interventions: The History and Future of (Mostly Higher) Education
read more: MOOC Interventions: The History and Future of (Mostly Higher) Education“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…
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First educator on Board of Mozilla
read more: First educator on Board of MozillaCathy 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…
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Co-Founder HASTAC, Changing the Way We Teach and Learn 2002-present
read more: Co-Founder HASTAC, Changing the Way We Teach and Learn 2002-presentThe 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…
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HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition
read more: HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning CompetitionThe 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,…
