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Ore, Christian-Emil – Computers and the Humanities, 1995
Maintains that there are two traditional categories of data for scholars: (1) physical objects and nonmaterial objects and (2) processed information. Describes the development and current plans for the Documentation Project, a Norwegian database for language and culture. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Hockey, Susan – Computers and the Humanities, 1992
Examines issues related to establishing courses on teaching computing to humanities students and faculty. Reviews applications such as e-mail, word processing, databases, and hypermedia-based instruction. Concludes that much research is needed in artificial intelligence and machine modeling of the human mind. (CFR)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Educational Strategies
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Krausse, Sylvia C.; Etchingham, John B., Jr. – Computers and the Humanities, 1986
This article presents a brief history of computer assisted library research and describes ten DIALOG databases that are most relevant to the humanities. Illustrates a simplified search strategy and describes the results of a project designed to involve humanities faculty at a university in using computerized searching. (JDH)
Descriptors: Databases, Higher Education, Humanities, Microcomputers
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Irizarry, Estelle – Computers and the Humanities, 1992
Presents an overview of educational computing for the nonspecialist classroom teacher. Describes computer-assisted instruction and reviews recent technological developments in the field. Predicts increasingly creative and efficient use of computers and software by teachers and students in all humanities disciplines. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection
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Henry, Charles – Computers and the Humanities, 1994
Asserts that humanities computing techniques and methodologies remain marginal to mainstream literary scholarship. Argues for large scale analyses of text databases that would incorporate a shift in theoretical orientation to include greater stress on intertextuality and sign theory. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
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Ide, Nancy M. – Computers and the Humanities, 1987
Discusses a Vassar College workshop and the debate it generated over the depth and breadth of computer knowledge needed by humanities students. Describes two positions: the "Holistic View," which emphasizes the understanding of the formal methods of computer implementation; and the "Expert Users View," which sees the humanist…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computers, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education
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Greenberg, Gary – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Discusses "Object LOGO," a symbolic computer programing language for use in the creative arts. Describes the use of the program in approaching arts projects from textual, graphic, and musical perspectives. Suggests that use of the program can promote development of creative skills and humanities learning in general. (SG)
Descriptors: Art Education, Courseware, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
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Klavans, Judith L.; Chodorow, Martin S. – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Discusses the use of an instructional morphological parser (IMP) in the teaching of courses in theoretical and computational morphology. Provides an overview of computational morphology. Outlines the two courses and speculates on computational and linguistic concepts that students learned. Examines problems encountered in teaching about recursion.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction
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Randall, Neil – Computers and the Humanities, 1988
Questions whether the world presented in interactive fiction is a "literary one." Defines "literariness" as quality of "making strange" that which is linguistically familiar. Randall presents study of: "Mindwheel,""Brimstone,""Breakers,""A Mind Forever…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computers, Fantasy
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Channon, Geoffrey – Computers and the Humanities, 2000
Describes how the British government views the electronic campus as a quick fix for delivering the ideas of a learning society and mass higher (and further) education. Argues that in the humanities interventions are needed to secure a meld between face-to-face teaching methods and the new technology. (CMK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Higher Education
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Ess, Charles – Computers and the Humanities, 2000
Describes the successes, limitations, and costs of incorporating Web-accessible conferencing software and discourse ethics in a religious studies class. Suggests that electronic instruction may work for some students but not for all. States that electronic teaching should be viewed as one teaching method among many. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies, Electronic Mail
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Lehman, Stephen; Renfro, Patricia – Computers and the Humanities, 1992
Explores the usefulness of the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) to humanities scholars. Contends that factors such as inaccessibility of terminals and difficult-to-use interfaces inhibit the utility of the database. Maintains that use of the RLIN should help database managers plan the next generation of information systems. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Higher Education, Humanities
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Cushing, Steven – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Discusses "Minds and Machines," a one-semester undergraduate course for nontechnical majors. Explains that the course examines how philosophical problems of knowledge, cognition, language, and human nature can be investigated with computer-related concepts and techniques. Describes experiments conducted during the course, including mind…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Epistemology, Heuristics
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Raben, Joseph – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Provides an overview of the development of humanities computing during the past 25 years. Mentions the major applications of the computer to humanities disciplines including the generation of concordances, attempts at dating works of major authors, proving authorship, defining style, and compiling indexes. Discusses lexicographical uses and…
Descriptors: Art History, Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
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Olsen, Mark – Computers and the Humanities, 1994
Contends that computer-aided literature studies have failed to impact the field as a whole. Asserts that new databases, such as TLG or ARTFL, allow wide-spectrum analyses that may transform the way in which literature is studied. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Higher Education
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