Current Examples

• International relations faculty member believes that the movement to the web is as great a paradigm shift as the move to print. He does not ask his students to write papers. They build “position” multimedia web pages about a controversial topic. One student’s paper was chosen by LC as a good example of study on Darfour.

www.mtholyoke.edu/~rmsposat/index.html

• Anthropology faculty member wants his students to understand how communities of scholars evolve beginning with one seminal thinker’s work.

www.mtholyoke.edu/~mglackin/roth.jpg

• English faculty member wants his students to learn to write for each other, not for “the teacher.”

www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/assets/lits/writingtools.pdf

•Genetics faculty member wants his students to learn to use the NCBI NLM Toolkit on the genome project to develop new bioinformatics research.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

•Gender studies faculty member wants her students to find their public voices.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/proj/womenspublicvoices/

•Developmental Biology faculty member wants her advanced students to learn to develop Time-lapse video microscopy of cell rearrangements in fish embryos; embryonic cell migration—in vivo and in vitro (especially in sea urchins); the role of extracellular matrix in embryonic cell movements and to make their work available to students in less advanced courses.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rfink/

• English faculty member wants his undergraduates to think about the relations among digital media and their predecessors in the hand-press and manuscript eras:

http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng241/

• Art history faculty member wants his students to learn how to use tools in the study of architecture

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/thjermst/amp

•Film Studies Faculty member wanted to collect references in cultural media back to Alfred Hitchcock

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~thjermst/susanBlog.jpg