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Agenda Offcourse Meeting 10-5-2016
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee, tea & introductions
11:30 - 12:00 Where are we now?
Last year I quit my tenured position at the University of Amsterdam. I did so because I believe that our education system is broken. It’s too slow. It’s too expensive. It doesn’t meet any real-world requirements. But most importantly, students don’t learn enough.
I know this, because I spent most of my life trying to fix it. As a student, a professor, and even as HR manager. After two decades, however, I reached the conclusion that we need a radically new approach.
What we need is a form of education that follows the students development rather than the other way around. A space where learning can happen everywhere, all the time, rather than in short, intense bursts. We built a platform that facilitates this: the platform is called 'Offcourse'.
Offcourse gives you the tools to take ownership over your professional growth by helping you find just the right content and tracking everything you learn. It’s free. It’s open source. It’s easy to use. Join us, if you are ready, in a futur
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Coding the Humanities
Humanities scholars often use pre-fabricated and often inappropriate tools.The aim of the Coding the humanities project is to help humanities scholars gain ownership of research tools by building their own.
For this project, we are currently developing a platform where scholars can learn programming and build small research tools that support individual steps in their research processes. With this platform we adopt techniques from the software development community, which has tackled several problems for collabaration, sharing of resources. Platforms like GitHub and Codepen support people in learning from others and to present and share their research.
Programming and computers are great thinking tools. A programmatic approach to research forces you to make your arguments explicit, which makes it easier to critique them, but also to reuse, share and extend them.
=== We have developed an approach to learning to programme tailored to humanities scholars:
New ASCA Research Group: Data Drive
Organizers: Prof. Robin Boast, Dr. Jan Hein Hoogstad, and Prof. Sander van Maas
Note: This text is work-in-progress and will periodically be updated as the project advances. The most up-to-date version can be found here: https://gist.github.com/datadrive/5049600
In 'The Age of the World Picture' (1938), Martin Heidegger argues that modern science and technology rest in their entirety on computation. Importantly, he warns that these ever-growing numbers and increasingly complex calculations come with a uncontrollable, and all-encompassing shadow. According to Heidegger, however, this shadow does not only designate a loss of control, it also announces the coming of a new era :
"Everyday opinion sees in the shadow only the lack of light, if not light's complete denial. In truth, however, the shadow is a manifest, though impenetrable, testimony emitting of light. In keeping with this concept of shadow, we experience the inc