DIGITAL PEDAGOGY IN THE LIBERAL ARTS: THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM? (A CASE STUDY)

This study examines one course in the humanities, built around the blended approach to learning, in a small, private, liberal arts college setting. The project is to design, assign, and assess student work that is digitally born and delivered, in a capstone course designed for about-to-graduate seniors from a variety of majors. The goal is to assess the effectiveness of digital tools for projects and assignments in a traditionally structured and taught course. In a literature-based course where close readings of a text are the primary focus, we will use word clouds, word usage charts, and other text mining tools; we will annotate texts using wikis; and instead of a final paper we will build a blog.