Archive for category: Prox

Learning as a Product of Traveling

Enhanced-learning.org is an online resource devoted to educational and academic subjects. The site is devoted to intellectual pursuits. Trying to analysize information and trying to form theories that can be tested again and again for their veracity is at the heart of the drive to build intellectual models of the world and all that is [...]

The Visual Arts, The Liberal Arts, and Information Technology

Claudia J. Esslinger Professor of Art Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio The Need for Interdependence Increases in the use of Information Technology in the Liberal Arts College calls for a greater interdependence of the divisions of the college, specifically a further integration of the modes of inquiry taught in the Visual Arts. Training in studio art [...]

Being Digitally Educated, Dewey, Technology, and Distance Learning

Michael Brint Associate Professor and Director, Integrated Program in Humane Studies Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio I. The Experience of Education in Digital Life In his 1995 book, Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte signals what many believe to be a paradigm shift from “atoms” to “bits”–from an “atomic” orientation to the world consumed by material interactions to [...]

Women: Lost in Cyberspace?

Laurie Finke Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Date of publication: 1997 The Culture of Virtual Communities In one passage from A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s fictional narrator finds herself walking across the grounds of an Oxbridge college deep in thought, contemplating an essay by Charles Lamb on Milton’s [...]