Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson is the Assistant Director for Information Literacy at Davidson College. She is the Librarian on all DavidsonX course teams. A few of Sara’s responsibilities include: sourcing open educational resources, educating the team on copyright law, negotiating needed licenses, assisting faculty on research, answer questions regarding purchasing and licensing new content, and addressing preservation needs.
More info: http://sites.davidson.edu/littlereflections/sara-swanson/

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Electronic Literature (edX)

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Electronic Literature (edX)
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Interactive Fiction. Chatterbots. Hypertext and kinetic poetry. Explore these avant garde forms and other new media in this exciting class.

Applications of Linear Algebra Part 2 (edX)

Explore applications of linear algebra in the field of data mining by learning fundamentals of search engines, clustering movies into genres and of computer graphics by posterizing an image. Our world is in a data deluge with ever increasing sizes of datasets. Linear algebra is a tool [...]

Applications of Linear Algebra Part 1 (edX)

Learn to use linear algebra in computer graphics by making images disappear in an animation or creating a mosaic or fractal and in data mining to measure similarities between movies, songs, or friends. From simulating complex phenomenon on supercomputers to storing the coordinates needed in modern 3D printing, [...]

Representations of HIV/AIDS (edX)

We will explore how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in diverse genres through the perspectives of the scientist and the literary critic. This class engages students in a transdisciplinary conversation about representations of HIV/AIDS: in science writing, journalism, visual art, literature, drama, and popular culture. [...]