Stanford Launches Literature and Social Online Learning Class - Leila Meyer, Campus Technology

Stanford University has wrapped its inaugural session of Literature and Social Online Learning, a new, interdisciplinary class that brings together students from computer science and the humanities to collaborate on literature technology projects. Students in the course work individually and in interdisciplinary teams to "study, develop and test new digital methods, games, apps, interactive social media uses to innovate how the humanities can engage and educate students and the public today," according to the course description on Stanford's site. The course introduces project-based learning — where students work to solve a problem or build a product — to the humanities. While project-based learning is common in computer science classes, it's unusual in the humanities, but "students found the model motivating and exciting," according to a news release from Stanford. http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/01/07/stanford-launches-literature-and-social-online-learning-class.aspx