Results for tag: Digital Technology

AAS Statement Regarding Remote Teaching, Online Scholarship, Safety, and Academic Freedom

07/23/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, Digital Technology, Higher Education, Teaching

Download as PDF AAS Board of DirectorsJuly 23, 2020 Executive Summary Videoconferencing tools such as Zoom present universities with stark technological, pedagogical, and moral considerations, especially with regard to the security of student and faculty data. These issues arise from the censorship and data-monitoring and informing requirements imposed by various foreign jurisdictions, in particular China, […]

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Introducing Bodies and Structures 1.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History

02/11/2019 by Asia Now Field Notes, Multimedia, Teaching, Digital Technology, East Asia, History, Japan

By David R. Ambaras and Kate McDonald What Bodies and Structures Is Bodies and Structures is a platform for researching and teaching spatial histories of East Asia and the larger worlds of which they were a part. The site combines individually-authored, media-rich content modules with conceptual maps and visualizations. The modules analyze primary sources with significant […]

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Introducing Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona State University

04/19/2017 by Asia Now Field Notes, Multimedia, Teaching, Digital Technology

By James Edmonds I was first alerted to the existence of Dr. Juliane Schober and Dr. Pauline Hope Cheong’s project, “Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona State University,” by the sudden increase in undergraduate students roaming the halls near my office. I ran into one of the undergraduate interns in the elevator and asked […]

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