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Chapter 15 - Disrupting Curricula in the Area of the Humanities

from Part III - Changes in Teaching Content

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Joshua Patterson
Edited by
Andreas Kaplan
Andreas Kaplan
Affiliation:
ESCP Business School Berlin
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Summary

Through a case study of a recent curricular expansion, this chapter details the potency of digital as a signifier of innovation and employability in contemporary higher education. Interviews with faculty and administrators at a research university in the US narrate the successful review and establishment of a new graduate program, resulting from the strategic choice of faculty to emphasize the digital as a substantive base of their new program. This chapter unpacks an example of digital disruption in teaching content—in the words of the individuals who designed and evaluating the program proposal. In this case, the digital was an attractive innovation to students, faculty, and administrators, particularly as it related to growing concerns around career preparation and labour market demands.

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Case studyCOVID-19curriculumdigitalisationeducationemployabilityhigher educationhumanities
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Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education , pp. 181 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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