Courseware in the humanities: Expanded horizons

Abstract

This article presents an overview of educational computing for the non-specialist from the perspective of the classroom teacher as user of courseware rather than as programmer, developer, or researcher. It considers diverse terms associated with courseware and CAI and offers a working definition of courseware and a pragmatic taskrelated typology broad enough to accommodate many humanities domains. It further discusses sources for dedicated as well as "crossover" courseware products in the humanities, resources for information, and courseware interest in Computers and the Humanities as evidenced by articles, reviews, and special issues.

Disciplinary Differences and the Integration of Technology into Teaching

“…The areas of curriculum knowledge and 'tools of the trade' and pedagogical content knowledge have seen developments with respect to the integration of technology in recent years. In addition to applications in mathematics and the sciences, we have seen the expansion of applications into: the humanities (Irizarry, 1992); anthropology (Fagan & Michaels, 1992); poetry (Newbold & Stahlke, 1990); philosophy (Renzi, 1989;Ager, 1984); and more broadly, hypermedia technology to support a new pedagogy of teacher education (Lampert & Bell, 1990). As this trend continues to spread and deepen, there are already clear indications that the effect of time will gradually begin to transform teaching practice.…”