MyDante: Contemplative Reading and Hybrid Technologies
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چکیده
The following paper describes the results of an experiment in the hybrid use a newly developed online platform for what we are calling contemplative reading. First taught in face to face courses, the platform was developed to help students engage with Dante’s Divine Comedy at multiple levels by mimicking in digital form the medieval manuscript’s marginalia and reflective aspects. The analysis described below is based on the first ever MOOC implementation of the platform and decidedly humanities based model of reading, and as the results show indicate a great deal of success and deep engagement by the online students.
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