{"id":77762,"date":"2021-12-13T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77762"},"modified":"2021-12-13T10:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T15:13:46","slug":"reflections-on-the-humanities-may-be-declining-at-universities-but-theyre-thriving-on-zoom-koenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/13\/reflections-on-the-humanities-may-be-declining-at-universities-but-theyre-thriving-on-zoom-koenig\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “The Humanities May Be Declining at Universities \u2014 But They\u2019re Thriving on Zoom” [Koenig]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Humanities May Be Declining at Universities \u2014 But They\u2019re Thriving on Zoom<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout the pandemic, versions of this close-reading conversation have taken place week after week. Organized through new nonprofits and small startups including the Catherine Project, Night School Bar and Premise, they bring together adults who want to spend their free time\u00a0talking to strangers\u00a0about literature and philosophy.<\/p>\n

It sounds at first like an ambitious book club\u2014except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free.<\/p>\n

\u201cMostly it\u2019s a way for them to do a kind of teaching they can\u2019t do at their regular jobs,\u201d explains Zena Hitz, founder of the Catherine Project and a tutor (faculty member) at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nI’ve often thought that online-based learning may be the thing that saves the liberal arts (i.e., available throughout one’s lifetime and would be far less expensive). It would be ironic though, as many liberal arts institutions have not been proponents of online-based learning.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Humanities May Be Declining at Universities \u2014 But They\u2019re Thriving on Zoom — from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig Excerpt: Throughout the pandemic, versions of this close-reading conversation have taken place week after week. Organized through new nonprofits and small startups including the Catherine Project, Night School Bar and Premise, they bring together adults who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,277,115,302,260,840,72,8,286,9,434,32,141,533,3,234,419,119,289,102,7,838,510,559,228,87,79,327,15,423,505,256,239,62,279,309,377,480,321,214,312,367,189,11,49,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-art","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-culture","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-digital-video","category-dramatheater","category-education-technology","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-history","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-languages-and-translation","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-preferences","category-learning-spaces","category-liberal-arts","category-library-librarians","category-lifelong-learning","category-love-of-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-music","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-participation","category-platforms","category-religion","category-society","category-united-states","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-videoconferencing","category-vision-possibilities","category-web-based-collaboration","category-englishwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77767,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77762\/revisions\/77767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}