HASTAC Information

"Changing the Way We Teach and Learn." HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory - pronounced "haystack") is an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists that are dedicated to changing the way we teach and learn. This is a network of individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer us for shaping how we learn, teach, communicate, create, and organize our local and global communities. We are motivated by the conviction that the digital era provides rich opportunities for informal and formal learning and for collaborative, networked research that extends across traditional disciplines, across the boundaries of academe and community, across the "two cultures" of humanism and technology, across the divide of thinking versus making, and across social strata and national borders. Our 13,000+ members from over 400+ affiliate organizations share news, tools, research, insights, pedagogy, methods, and projects--including Digital Humanities and other born-digital scholarship--and collaborate on various HASTAC initiatives. Founded in 2002, HASTAC is reputed to be the world’s first and oldest academic social network with annual pageview counts approaching the half-million mark. HASTAC’s central administration is divided between hubs located at Duke University and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.