Documentation:Graduate Certificate Program/Technology Session/Activity/Group A

Why have networks/digital practices become embedded in your discipline - what's the goal/hope/driver? If you don't think they have, why not?

• Initial thoughts
  • Gio: Facilitate learning
  • Sneha: Encourage participation in large classrooms.
  • Tae Y. & Deborah: In research, to enable global collaboration
  • Laura: MLA? Citation organisms that force particular ways of being; distance between practitioners is a major impetus. Digital just allows us to expand that network.
• Technology in research
  • Manipulating/storing/etc. large datasets
  • Building on other people's knowledge & data.
  • AI assistance means less time in trial-and-error in experiments
  • Easier to keep your own data organized and less likely to lose information
• General
  • Much faster to communicate (vs. letters), more robust to timezones.
  • Easier to keep students' work and communication compiled in an online system.
  • Much easier for students if they don't have to go somewhere
  • Easier to give feedback (and edit feedback)
  • Privatize information
  • Easier to locate plaigarism
  • Mechanism for people to do outreach or share information (ex. upload a video) with less investment of energy/energy/money
• They have because the University may want that information privatized and unavailable to the public. They have not because some disciplines are well-established and not willing to change things because it has worked for them so far.