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Digital Humanities In The Classroom And Beyond: 1) How Scaffolding Saved The Day -- Integrating Omeka Into Classroom Curricula 2) New Ecologies Of Collaboration -- Digital Humanities And Renaissance Drama, Teagan Eastman, Alison Gardner, Maura Giles-Watson
Digital Humanities In The Classroom And Beyond: 1) How Scaffolding Saved The Day -- Integrating Omeka Into Classroom Curricula 2) New Ecologies Of Collaboration -- Digital Humanities And Renaissance Drama, Teagan Eastman, Alison Gardner, Maura Giles-Watson
Digital Initiatives Symposium
This session will feature perspectives on digital humanities from presenters at two different institutions:
1) How Scaffolding Saved the Day: Integrating Omeka into Classroom Curricula
This presentation chronicles a university’s journey to bring digital exhibiting into classrooms across the curriculum. What began as an idea for a different kind of class project became an opportunity that invites students to embrace humanities in a new light and present it on a world stage. While the experience of curating digital exhibits using Omeka transformed the student learning process, it brought numerous challenges to library staff. To overcome these challenges, the presenters embraced …
Prototyping The Open Textbook Toolkit: Digital Infrastructure That Connects Libraries, Disciplinary Faculty, And University Presses To Support Open Education, William M. Cross, Mira Waller
Prototyping The Open Textbook Toolkit: Digital Infrastructure That Connects Libraries, Disciplinary Faculty, And University Presses To Support Open Education, William M. Cross, Mira Waller
Digital Initiatives Symposium
If you care about access to information, student success, or transformative education you’re probably thinking about the potential of open educational resources (OERs). As a profession, librarians have embraced open education but so far, we have not given faculty instructors the tools or infrastructure needed to drive wide engagement. Faculty are interested in creating customized resources that empower their instruction but barriers around creation, hosting, and remix of OERs are too high.
This session introduces the Open Textbook Toolkit, a project designed to reduce those barriers and grounded in deep research about the unmet needs of instructors and students. Currently …