“A Syllabus Proposal Based on Information and Communication Technology and the Process Approach for Teaching English Writing”.

To examine the needs analysis in the Bachelor in English as a Foreign Language, for the design of a skill-based syllabus based on the writing process approach and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools to enhance students writing skills.The below qualitative research proposes a skill-based syllabus (Rahimpour2010) design to develop the writing skills and the learning of the writing process through the process approach and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) tool to enhance writing skills and motivated students. The syllabus proposed was based on a need analysis done to students from the 4th to 9th semesters of the Bachelor Degree in English Language Teaching at Universidad Minuto de Dios to recognize the needs, perceptions, and weaknesses of the participants regarding writing skills. The needs, perceptions, and weaknesses were identified using 3 different data collection instruments. (Documents, questionnaires, and interviews) that allowed me to categorize the findings into three categories. Afterward, the categories and subcategories decoded in the needs analysis presented proofs of regular writing skills and low motivation during the writing courses. The pieces of evidence collected were the foundation for the syllabus design that had as result the creation of twelve sessions in which the writing skills and writing process are developing

Digits: Two Reports on New Units of Scholarly Publication

The Digits team (Matt Burton, Matthew J. Lavin, Jessica Otis, and Scott B. Weingart) convened around the question of how we might share, preserve, and legitimize scholarship freed from the affordances of print. For the A.W. Mellon-funded Digits Planning Grant (2016-2018), the PIs had three goals: - Investigate the use of software containers for research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. - Assess the infrastructural needs of digital humanists around publishing and preserving web-centric scholarship. - Gather a team of experts to guide the above activities and plan how they might inform a beneficial intervention into the scholarly ecosystem. Through our investigation into the scholarly uses of containers, we discovered that the technical infrastructure needed to connect containers with digital publications is underdeveloped. We see potential for container technologies to facilitate existing digital scholarly publications and afford new forms of computational scholarship, but this process would first require a series of infrastructural bridges. The digital scholarship needs assessment we conducted, as well as our advisory board meetings, made it clear that a targeted technological intervention alone would not be enough to welcome web-first publications into the scholarly ecosystem; in-tandem cultural and institutional changes are also necessary