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What would you include in an undergraduate course on digital
civilization -- a course beginning in the Renaissance and arriving at
our current digitally-mediated state of communication, knowledge, and
culture? Are there analogs to our digital world in the past? What authors or texts from history illuminate our present? What themes would you address? What fields of knowledge or cultural movements across the centuries have bearing on the digital now? If education itself is transforming, what's the recipe for teaching and learning both in and about the digital age? How would you structure such a course?
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This blog is intended to become Academic Evolution, the book. My model is Chris Anderson, whose Long Tail blog helped bring about his seminal book
of the same name. Similarly, I am beta testing my ideas, developing
them in keeping with the principle of transparency and with the goal of
inviting public review and collaboration. I'm smart enough to know
others are often much smarter, and I firmly believe that publishing
one's thinking process improves it. So, here's the working table of
contents for the book. Obviously I will be making each of these
proposed chapters the subject of my various blog posts. Let's figure
this out together! I welcome your suggestions:
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