What should the course catalog look like in the 21st century? Leveraging data and design for course selection and discovery

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Curricle with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, metaLAB Harvard

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Visualized, annotated, connected: what should the course catalog look like in the 21st century? In this participatory lunch talk, members of metaLAB's Curricle team will share details of the new platform they're building for course-selection and discovery—and invite participants to help design and refine the system.

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

Event Date

Nov 7 2017 12:00pm to Nov 7 2017 12:00pm

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 12:00 pm Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Harvard College campus Lamont Library, Harvard Yard (Map & Directions) RSVP required to attend in person & Photo ID Required at event

Event is not being webcast. Audio and video will be available shortly after event.

Curricle will offer a new experience in course selection at Harvard: a platform that gives students powerful tools in data visualization and analytics for browsing and selecting courses. The platform will enable students to see the broader landscape within which they navigate the curriculum, offering more opportunities for choice and customization. Additionally it will offer opportunities for students and scholars to see trends in Harvard’s curriculum over time.

The usual course-selection process has blind spots where life-changing courses can lurk undiscovered. And especially in a post-disciplinary era, finding ways to identify links currents among courses across departments—to chart, visualize, and connect far-flung parts of the curriculum—will allow students to forge new and productive paths. metaLAB’s team of designers and scholars will be offering an interactive lunch to preview Curricle and offer opportunities for engagement, reflection, and comprehensive rethinking of the course-selection experience.

About metaLAB

metaLAB (at) Harvard, led by Professor Jeffrey Schnapp (RLL, GSD), and headquartered at the Berkman Klein Center, is a creative research team exploring new roles for media and technology in the arts and humanities. The group's project-based research takes many forms, from museum and gallery installations to books, websites, and interventions in virtual and real space.

About Professor Jeffrey Schnapp

Before moving to Harvard in 2011, Jeffrey Schnapp occupied the Pierotti Chair of Italian Studies at Stanford, where he founded and led the Stanford Humanities Lab between 1999 and 2009. A cultural historian, designer, and curator with research interests extending from antiquity to the present, his most recent books include The Electric Information Age Book, Modernitalia, Digital_Humanities, and The Library Beyond the Book. At Harvard he occupies the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance and Comparative Literatures, while also serving as a faculty member of the Architecture department at the Graduate School of Design and as one of the faculty co-directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. For more information, go to jeffreyschnapp.com.

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https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/luncheon/11/Curricle

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candersen

Date tagged:

11/02/2017, 11:11

Date published:

10/23/2017, 16:29