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Advancing the Digital Humanities

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2012Educationafrican american literature, arizona, aurasma application, bryan carter, cable television, culture, devices, digital format, digital humanities, internet, ipads, iphones, jeremy patrick gesuale, ken mcallister, mobile network, music, o2, online course, phone calls, smartphone, social media, surfing, Technology, telegraph, uk, university, voicethreads, web

Bryan Carter, a UA assistant professor of Africana studies, is among faculty members in the arts and humanities more readily employing consumer-based technologies in educational, creative, interdisciplinary and engaging ways.

Take a guess – what are the most common uses for devices like smartphones?

Earlier this year, the UK-based mobile network O2 reported that, on average, people use their smartphones to access the Internet, communicate via social media and listen to music. Other popular uses, as explained by an article in The Telegraph, include playing games and making phone calls. (more…)

Interactive Classroom

By Guest PostOctober 28, 2012Educationbuyer, catherine eckel, class, computer generated, dallas, economic scenarios, economics professor, ellen green, equilibrium price, experimental economics, game, interactive, introductory economics, market, markets, personal experience, posted offer, profit maximization, real world, sheryl ball, teaching program, teaching system, Technology, texas, virginia tech, widgets, wireless, wits, wits programs

Economics professor implements Wireless Interactive Teaching System

Ellen Green, a visiting assistant professor of economics in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, is finding new ways to engage students in the classroom instead of simply lecturing.

Green uses a Wireless Interactive Teaching System (WITS) in her introductory economics classes that enables students to act as players in different economic scenarios — they even compete against each other during class. (more…)

Archivist an Expert on All Things ‘Born Digital’

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2012Education, Technologyaims project, american archivists, anne hartman, archivists, born digital, cds, collection, digital archivist, digital form, digital material, digital object, dvds, floppy disks, forensic toolkit, format, library, mark matienzo, paper document, saa, society, yale university

No longer primarily paper documents, donations to the Yale University Library now also come in digital forms and formats — including floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, and flash drives. Archivists are faced with a new and challenging dilemma: how to preserve “born-digital” collections in a form that can be read by available technology and also saved in a way that will be accessible in the future.

At Yale Library’s Manuscripts & Archives department, Mark Matienzo, Digital Archivist, is helping to develop strategies to reclaim and organize information that was created within the past 20 years — on media that may be already becoming obsolete. (more…)

A Tradition is Born

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2012Educationafrican american, african studies, allan kerandi, barflaan tedoe, black, career, community, cowboys, dead end, eric dormoh, film, giants, halloween, hay ride, horace huntley, huntley house, jasmine omorogbe, kohlman thompson, male student, minnesota, morrill hall, nfl, patrick troup, pharmacy, profit idowu, sanford hall, spike lee, university, walt jacobs, wyoming

At Huntley House, black male students find companions and support

It’s not every day you get to meet somebody who’s made history.

That happened in September for the young men of Huntley House, a section of Sanford Hall for black, male first-year students.

The students met Huntley House namesake Horace Huntley, who in 1969 took part in the takeover of Morrill Hall and occupation of the president’s office. The action called attention to the situation of black University of Minnesota students and led to the creation of what is now the Department of African American & African Studies. (more…)

Diana Davis dances her Ph.D.

By Guest PostOctober 20, 2012Education, Sciencediana davis, graduate student, language of dance, math research, veech surfaces

What if the Ph.D. research becomes too complex for words? Dozens of candidates turned to the language of dance in the fifth annual national contest sponsored by Science Magazine. Diana Davis, a graduate student in mathematics, won the first-ever “Dance Your Ph.D.” prize in pure mathematics. (more…)

India’s Public School Students on Par with Private Students

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2012Educationamita chudgar, benefit, developing countries, developing world, Economics, education level, education researcher, education review, education system, educational administration, educational outcome, elizabeth quin, India, k 12, michigan, private school, privatization, public school, rural, state university, student, student achievement, united states, urban area

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Contrary to past research, private school students in India do not outperform their counterparts in public schools, finds a new study by a Michigan State University education researcher.

The study challenges the claim that private schools are superior – a hot issue in India and other developing countries that are expanding K-12 educational offerings. During the past decade, some 40 million children have entered India’s education system, giving rise to a growth in privately run schools. (more…)

Student Success

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2012Educationacademic support, african american, american issue, campus, center, climate, commission, delaware, diversity, energy, freeman hrabowski, higher education, hispanic, middle states, newark, patrick harker, program, social journey, success, super nerd, trabant university, umbc, university, university leader, vincent tinto

UD conference highlights diversity and student retention

Freeman Hrabowski and Vincent Tinto both believe that creating a culture of trust and support is a key ingredient in retaining students from underrepresented groups while achieving genuine campuswide diversity.

Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), and Tinto, Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University, shared their expertise on diversity and student retention during the Student Success and Retention Conference, held Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Trabant University Center on the University of Delaware campus in Newark. (more…)

Brilliant 10

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2012Education, Sciencebody parts, brilliant 10, california irvine, capability, cars, computational algorithm, computer engineering, computer vision, delaware, deva ramanan, flat photography, honor roll, human template, identify, image recognition, monitor, patient, pedestrian detection, popular, rehabilitation, science magazine, self driving, software, system, teaches, three-dimensional, uci, ud alumnus, university, videogame systems, young scientists

UD alumnus one of Popular Science magazine’s ‘Brilliant 10’ Young Scientists

University of Delaware alumnus Deva Ramanan has been named one of Popular Science magazine’s “Brilliant 10” Young Scientists.

The designation places Ramanan on the magazine’s annual “honor roll” of the 10 most promising scientist for 2012.

Ramanan, who earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering at UD in 2000, is an associate professor of computer science at the University of California Irvine (UCI). There he is working to improve a computer’s image recognition capability, or in simpler terms, a computer’s ability to “see people.” (more…)

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