Academic Commons Quarterly

Academic Commons Quarterly

http://www.academiccommons.org/

Publisher: Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College

With Academic Commons, we seek to form a community of faculty,  
academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other  
academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web  
resource focused on liberal arts education. Academic Commons aims to  
share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate  
digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with  
technology. If successful, this site will advance opportunities for  
collaborative design, open development, and rigorous peer critique of  
such resources.

Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash  
College, Academic Commons shares these principles with the Center's  
exploration of liberal arts education: (1) Free exchange: open source  
technology and the free and open exchange of ideas, intellectual and  
creative work; (2) Heterogeneity: an understanding of, and  
sensitivity to, different modes of inquiry and their value for the  
larger academic enterprise; (3) Rational evaluation: a respect for  
evaluative processes that are anchored within professional expertise  
and are based on practices of open and rational deliberation.

Academic Commons arises from meetings sponsored by the Center of  
Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. Participants wrestled  
with the complex and evolving relationships among technology, new  
media, and liberal arts education and articulated a gap in the  
resources available to the community concerned with these issues.  
Sharing the Center of Inquiry's desire to be a "catalyst for  
reshaping liberal arts education in the 21st century," Academic  
Commons also assumes that definitions of liberal arts education are  
changing. Technology, especially, challenges higher education  
professionals to think beyond conventional notions of the liberal  
arts and to broaden their understanding of what it means to be  
"liberally educated."

Academic Commons is built by its members. We welcome submissions from  
faculty, administrators, staff, librarians, students, and anyone else  
with an interest in technology in liberal arts education. We need  
writers, editors, bibliographers, bloggers, and linkers. The website  
specifies for each section what sorts of contributions we are looking  
for. We invite submissions that examine a broad range of issues  
concerning the intersection of new technologies, liberal arts  
education, and scholarly communication. Want to contribute? We are  
looking for ideas and contributions, links to and links from your  
sites. The Academic Commons is open to a diversity of theoretic  
paradigms and methodologies.

Managing Editor:

Jennifer M. Curran
Email: jcurran@academiccommons.org

Academic Commons Quarterly is available free of charge as an Open  
Access journal on the Internet.

Content available online.

Current Issue: Issue 1 August 2005

Date: 12 August 2005