Research

RITC Call 2023-2024

Published: April 3, 2023

Humanities Technology is now seeking Research and Instructional Technology Consultants (RITCs) for Academic Year 23-24 Deadline for Applications: May 5, 2023 Are you looking for a job that offers fee…

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Small Bytes Workshops return for Spring!

Published: March 22, 2023
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The Small Bytes workshop series returns in the spring of 2023! We look to introduce a new instructional or research tool (or topic) on a weekly basis. These are not…

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Input Hypothesis

Published: January 14, 2020
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The idea that language learners need exposure to the language (or “input”) to make progress in the target language is neither surprising nor new.  What is surprising is what the…

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Embed WI+RE Workshops in your Course Site

Published: September 28, 2019

Writing Instruction and Research Education, known as WI+RE, is a community at UCLA that fosters student success in their writing and research projects. UCLA’s WI+RE team has developed 7 online…

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RITC Call 2019-2020

Published: April 9, 2019
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Humanities Technology is now seeking Research and Instructional Technology Consultants (RITCs) for 2019-20 Deadline for Applications: April 30, 2019 Are you looking for a job that offers fee remissions and…

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Textual analysis and word clouds

Published: December 12, 2018
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If you have done work in the Humanities, you have likely come across the concept of “close reading” — the careful, detailed examination and interpretation of a short passage of…

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Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research

Published: April 23, 2018
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Faculty across the disciplines persistently express concerns about their students’ skills in research collection, data management, and analysis of materials–particularly in fields where transparency of method and reproducibility of results…

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Past Meets Future: The Rise of Digital Humanities

Published: February 13, 2018

As a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, I interact with archaeologists, ancient language experts, geographers, art historians, and experts from many related fields. While attending conferences in these areas, I…

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