30 October, 2017
Universities and Libraries NTU Medical Students Could Get Customised Help from 'Virtual Tutor' in Future
Digital Humanities Pedagogy as Essential Liberal Education Source: Brandon T. Locke, Michigan State University, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Volume 11 Number 3.
NTU announced a collaboration with IBM to develop a virtual “tutor” for students. It will be integrated with the school’s team-based learning platform, and should also be able to adapt learning to each individual, analyse a student's performance, as well as his or her weaknesses and strengths. Image Source: Andrea Levy for The Chronicle Review Singapore's First Long-Span Wind Turbine Installed at Semakau Landfill As part of NTU's Renewable Energy Integration Demonstrator - Singapore (REIDS), a new long-span wind turbine has been installed at the Semakau Landfill, capable of producing enough energy to power 45 four-room HDB units a year. This project is in partnership with French multinational electric utility company ENGIE.
This article argues that it is important for liberal arts students to learn “essential skills for information retrieval and analysis, media literacy, and communication in the digital age”, and suggests that building a framework for teaching this into the curriculum itself is a needed development for both Digital Humanities as well as liberal arts education in general. More about Digital Humanities: 1. Using Maps to Promote Data-Driven DecisionMaking: One Library's Experience in Data Visualization Instruction 2. An Annotated Bibliography of Digital Scholarship in Libraries 3. The Digital-Humanities Bust 4. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data