Poster
Sharla Sava
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York
Biography
Sharla Sava is a writer and university educator. She has lectured, curated exhibitions, and published a variety of articles about art after modernism, discussing the work of Robert Filliou, Antonia Hirsch, Ray Johnson, and Jeff Wall, among others.
Abstract
The arrival of automated models of writing assessment seems to trigger an extraordinary degree of social anxiety when it comes to considering the future of post secondary classrooms. Many humanities departments continue to consider constructivist, information-driven relationships to language as overly instrumental and thus secondary to more pragmatic frameworks of linguistic analysis. The members of this panel, by contrast, are interested breaking away from these more traditional models in order to develop new models of assessment suitable to our current, highly networked, context. We will explore how current online tools and systems could be productively utilized to build important insights into the art of writing as well as its assessment.
Sharla Sava will consider how college writing is being reshaped by current transformations in elite online learning services. As many observers have recently remarked, a tsunami of online education initiatives has recently been launched, brought about, in no small part, by an unprecedented investment of Silicon Valley venture capital. There are many reasons to argue that the growing availability of online education – ranging from free, open-source experiments (i.e. Udemy, Khan Academy) to highly structured, established, for-profit, degree-granting online universities (i.e. University of Phoenix) – improves, through sheer access and democratization, college-level learning opportunities. Dr. Sava will ask questions about the ways in which pedagogy will be transformed as a result of these new market models.