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Eyes On The Prize: Delivering Archival Content With Synchronized Transcripts In Hydra, Irene Taylor, Shannon Davis

Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management

Regarded as the definitive work on the Civil Rights Movement, the documentary series, Eyes on the Prize, has been seen by millions since its PBS debut in 1987. However, what remains unseen is the nearly 85 hours of interview outtakes that provide further insight into the series’ original stories of struggle, resistance, and perseverance. Through the Eyes on the Prize Digitization and Reassembly project, funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Washington University Libraries has made the complete, never-before-seen interviews and TEI XML encoded, synchronized transcripts freely accessible through its newly developed Hydra digital repository.

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How To Evaluate A Syllabus For An Online Course., David Line Denali, Mary-Katherine Smith, Stephen F. Pyle

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This session explores how to determine strengths and weakness of an online course by examining the syllabus. Presenters and participants will move beyond the technical aspects such as alignment of content and into the flow of the online course. For this workshop participants are welcome to provide a syllabus for review.

Assessment Manual: Practical Tool For Keeping Assessment Processes On Track, Leslie L. Griffin

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Department chairs are tasked with ensuring that complex and comprehensive assessment plans related to academic programs are in place and monitored, providing outcomes data that drive program improvement. Participants will review a model Assessment Manual designed to keep stakeholders on track within the assessment system.

Active Knowledge Sharing In Online Group Work, Bo Chang

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to explore how to support active knowledge sharing and creation in an online group work which both encourages collaboration and motivates individual effort.