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Digital Humanities and Integrative Learning

Nyhan, J; Terras, M; Mahony, S; (2014) Digital Humanities and Integrative Learning. In: Blackshields, D and Cronin, J and Higgs, B and Kilcommins, S and McCarthy, M and Ryan, A, (eds.) Integrative Learning: International research and practice. (235 - 247). Routledge: Abingdon, UK. Green open access

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Book description: Current teaching, learning and assessment practices can lead students to believe that courses within a programme are self-sufficient and separate. Integrative Learning explores this issue, and considers how intentional learning helps students become integrative thinkers who can see connections in seemingly disparate information, and draw on a wide range of knowledge to make decisions. Written by international contributors who engaged reflectively with their teaching and their students’ learning, the book seeks to develop a shared language of integrative learning, encouraging students to adapt skills learned in one situation to problems encountered in another, and make autonomous connections across courses, between experiences, and throughout their lives. More informed teachers can help students develop the necessary attributes for intentional learning, which include having a sense of purpose, fitting fragmentary information into a ‘learning framework’, understanding something of their own learning processes, asking probing questions, reflecting on their own choices, and knowing when to ask for help. Integrative Learning draws on international research and vast studies to provide the reader with the resources to ensure access to a unified learning experience. The book discusses conceptual and technical tools necessary for facilitating integrative learning across a range of disciplines as well as providing learning pedagogies and considers integrative learning in the context of the relevance of higher education in the complexity and uncertainty of the 21st century. It will appeal to academics and researchers in the field of higher education, as well as those generating higher education curriculums.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Digital Humanities and Integrative Learning
ISBN: 041571107X
ISBN-13: 9780415711074
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/97804157110...
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Authors 2015. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Education, Digital Humanities; Object-based learning; integrative learning; pedagogy
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1452693
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