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An Assignment From Our Students: An Undergraduate View Of The Historical Profession, Edward L. Ayers
An Assignment From Our Students: An Undergraduate View Of The Historical Profession, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
The students confidently measured the world through what they knew, and what they knew was popular culture. That culture, often electronic in one way or another, was more pervasive and powerful than anything else they had experienced, including school. The only history books most had seen were high school textbooks, books they universally detested. The students, not surprisingly, liked the idea that historical understanding arrives in many forms
A More-Radical Online Revolution, Edward L. Ayers
A More-Radical Online Revolution, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Whatever the discipline, the new online world must find ways to help create new knowledge. Online education cannot run indefinitely, as it does now, on borrowed intellectual capital, disseminating what we already know. Higher education takes its energy, its purpose, from a charged circuit between teaching and research, between sharing knowledge and making knowledge. New forms of teaching must be able to generate new ideas.