engaging undergraduates with digital scholarship projects

Engaging Undergraduates with Digital Scholarship Projects!http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/!@frostdavis #chatdh!Digital  Humani,es  in  Prac,ce  Wednesday,  October  22,  2014  

Why DH?!

32  ins,tu,ons,  50  individual  responses  

Digital in Higher Ed!

AAC&U!•  Leading national association

concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. !

•  Committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career.!•  http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/

Academic_programs/general_education/index.shtm !

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General Education Maps and Markers (GEMs)!

•  http://www.aacu.org/gems!•  Digital Working Group includes!–  Randall Bass, Associate Provost for Undergraduate

Education, Georgetown University!–  José Antonio Bowen, President, Goucher College!–  Diana Oblinger, President and CEO, EDUCAUSE!–  Candace Thille, Founding Director of the Open

Learning Initiative, Assistant Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, and Senior Research Fellow, Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning, Stanford University!

hBp://www.thirdway.org/publica,ons/714    

Learning            Ecosystem  

Learning Tools!•  Open Learning Initiative (OLI)!–  Carnegie Mellon!–  Computer-based, interactive

tutorials and quizzes!–  Customized, adaptive learning!–  Instant feedback!–  Designed with learning science!–  Continuous improvement based

on user data!!

Digitally-Informed General Education!

•  Digitally-augmented problem solving—repeatedly. !

•  Practice building learning networks & learning in the ecosystem!

•  Human-computer synergy for lifelong learning.!!

Scaffolded Curriculum!

Using  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

Contribu,ng  to  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

Producing  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

Playing with Text Analysis!

hBp://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflec,ons-­‐on-­‐a-­‐text-­‐analysis-­‐assignment/    

Genera,ve  Scholarship    hBp://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipa,on/    

Citizen Science!•  iNaturalist app: http://www.inaturalist.org/ !

Wild Basin Biodiversity!

Undergrad Sourcing!

La,n  323:  Tacitus    Benefiel,  Washington  &  Lee      

Enduring Women!

Public Digital Scholarship!

Cura2on,  Collabora2on,  Praxis,  Community,  Race  

Course  

Ongoing  Faculty  Project    

Team-­‐teaching  

Community  Engagement  

Intercampus  Collabora,on  

Overcoming Barriers!•  Raising awareness of models!•  Connecting isolated practice into coherent

curriculum!•  Transforming faculty autonomy into collaboration!

Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts Models & Experiments !

MaB  Gold  

Kathy  Harris  

Jentery  Sayers  

Rebecca  Davis  

MLA  2012  

#curateteaching  

•  First-­‐Year  Seminars  and  Experiences  

•  Common  Intellectual  Experience  

•  Learning  Communi,es  •  Wri,ng-­‐Intensive  Courses  

•  Collabora,ve  Assignments  and  Projects  

•  Undergraduate  Research  

•  Diversity/Global  Learning  

•  Service  Learning,  Community-­‐Based  Learning  

•  Internships  •  Capstone  Courses  and  Projects  

High  Impact  Prac.ces  (Kuh)  

“Why We Fight”!•  Openness!•  Collaboration!•  Collegiality and Connectedness!•  Diversity!•  Experimentation!

•  Spiro, Lisa. “‘This Is Why We Fight’: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/part/2 !

Thank you!St. Edward’s University!

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Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!

Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!

Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!