Higher Ed – Digital Humanities Now

Editors’ Choice: AI Inverts the Disciplinary Hierarchy

Editors’ Summary: This post questions the perceived hierarchy of disciplines in the university, and argues that the rise of generative AI challenges this hierarchy. He points to how computer science was considered the most lucrative major in the twenty-first century until the automation of coding made possible by AI. He uses the case study of […]

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Editors’ Choice: How Disability Awareness Can Support Course Design Conversations

As the conversations about Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) increase as faculty start designing courses and assessments for the fall I have noticed lately a reoccuring theme in a lot of the posts – the need for flexibility. Many of the posts speak to how difficult it is to design when the technology […]

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Editors’ Choice: CGS Position Paper, Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies

The following is a position paper for an upcoming workshop on the dissertation convened by the Council of Graduate Schools. I’ll be speaking on a panel focusing on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the […]