A Comparative Study On Digital Humanities Education Between Chinese And Foreign ISchools

As a newly emerging interdisciplinary subject,digital humanities has become one of the research hotspots in the field of library and information at home and abroad in recent years.More and more scholars devote themselves to the research of digital humanities.Digital humanities not only uses computational tools to help humanities scholars complete simple and repetitive tasks to reduce their workload,but also provides a new research perspective and thinking paradigm for traditional humanities research.With the deepening of the research on digital humanities,the demand for digital humanities professionals in various fields is increasing day by day.Continuous talent cultivation and output are the basis for the research in the field of digital humanities,and provide talent reserve and intellectual support for the research in digital humanities.Digital humanities originated in foreign countries,and professional education of digital humanities in some western countries is always in the leading position,which has high reference value for the discipline construction and talent training program establishment of digital humanities in Chinese colleges and universities.In this paper,9 universities offering digital humanities courses within the scope of iSchools at home and abroad were selected as the survey samples.Literature research,network research and comparative analysis were adopted to investigate and make comparative analysis on the sample universities from the four dimensions of training objectives,training forms,curriculum provision and teachers.It sums up the similarities and differences in the digital humanities education iSchools colleges at home and abroad,and the extracted digital humanities education experience from abroad,our country can reference based on our country's education system in colleges of iSchools,put forward the "course-culture-employment" trinity digital humanities education development strategy,namely(1)To speed up the digital humanities education promotion,focus on curriculum optimization reform;(2)Improve the form of digital humanities education and pay attention to the cultivation of talents with composite abilities;(3)Increase interschool internship opportunities and broaden employment channels for students;(4)Grasp the demand of digital humanities employment and adjust the curriculum structure dynamically.The research of digital humanities education is an important aspect of the research and development of digital humanities,which provides a direction for the cultivation and output of digital humanities professionals,and provides guidance and reference for the construction of digital humanities.