Teaching History in the Digital Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-472-03676-9
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Digital Humanities

Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing aboutthe transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the lastfew years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make thistransition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on campuses,the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content, anda generation of students that has never known a world without easyInternet access.

Teaching History in the Digital Age serves as a guide for practitioners onhow to fruitfully employ the transformative changes of digital media inthe research, writing, and teaching of history. T. Mills Kelly synthesizesmore than two decades of research in digital history, offering practicaladvice on how to make best use of the results of this synthesis in theclassroom and new ways of thinking about pedagogy in the digitalhumanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelly, T. Mills

Über Autor(innen)

T. Mills Kelly is Professor and an Associate Director of the RoyRosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George MasonUniversity.