Thursday, February 6, 2014

Challenge and Opportunities in the Digital Humanities



I went through the "Print Scholarship and Digital resources" article. Author mentioned that “the the realm of the visual that we are considering some of the most interesting interrelationships of print scholarship and digital resources.” Author also mentioned that “while much of this knowledge has been lost in the textual obsession of print culture, the graphical interface of the computer screen has helped us reconnect to the world of the visual and recognize that we can relearn a long-neglected vocabulary of interpretation.” I agree with author ideas. But I realize that visualization is a challenge for the humanities scholarship. In engineering science research, the phrase visualization explicates the field of study that uses interactive graphical tools to explore and present graphically a represented 2D/3D diagram or digitally represented data that might be simulated, constructed, measured, or analyzed. Visualization is usually taught in undergraduate and graduate-level courses in the engineering science area. The focus is on teaching students who are already versed in computer systems and technology how to create innovative information visualization tools.  Students in such classes typically create a project, which serves as a basis for their grade in the course. Visualization is a skill that must be practiced for simplicity, and that takes time. Engineering schools teach courses using virtual lab such as Matlab, Multisim, Pspice, and Electronic workbench by making students construct, design, analyze, simulate and redesign. Therefore, I am planning to teach an undergraduate course called electric circuit course using Multisim to solve electric circuit problems that require computer simulation and visualization in order to increase students’ understanding of electrical circuit theories and concepts. May be it an enormous challenge for me to select the material to teach this course using Multisim. Should the course focus exclusively on electric circuits diagram visualization? Can Multisim simulation software provide adequate experience for all these students? Will the software experience sufficiently reinforce concepts such as electric circuit theory?

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