Teaching Skills or Teaching Methodology?

Simon Mahony is a teaching fellow at the Centre for Digital Humanities at University College London. His research interests are in the application of new technologies to the study of the ancient world, using new web-based mechanisms and digital resources to build and sustain learning communities, and collaborative and innovative working. He is active in the field of distance learning and a member of the University of London's Centre for Distance Education. He is one of the founders of the Digital Classicist (http://www.digitalclassicist.org/), organizing its summer seminar series and various conference panels. He is also an editor at the Stoa Consortium weblog (http://www.stoa.org/) and an associate fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.

Elena Pierazzo

(author)

Lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1356-3884

Elena Pierazzo has a PhD in Italian Philology. Her expertise is in Italian Renaissance texts and text encoding, and she has published and presented papers at international conferences in Renaissance literature, digital critical editions, text encoding theory and Italian linguistics. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, where she chairs the Teaching Committee and is director of the MA in Digital Humanities. Elena is also teacher of XML-related technologies at both undergraduate and master's level, and was formerly a researcher at the University of Pisa, engaged in both teaching and research. She is actively involved in the TEI user community, with a special interest in the transcription of modern and medieval manuscripts. She serves as TEI Chair for the 2012-13 term.