Working with the Wyles Family Western Reserve Collection of letters in Special Collections & Archives and the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, students in Kris Klein Hernández’s Borders, Empire, & Immigration History course this semester developed Beyond the Archives: Documenting Erasure, Survivance, and Dispossession from CT’s Western Reserve as a digital archive and scholarly website. Professor Hernández replaced his…
Category: Open Pedagogy
CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities 2025 Conference
After a few years’ hiatus, we are delighted to announce that the third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) will take place on February 21-22, 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. We seek participation from a broad range…
Profiles in Open: Di Luo
Di Luo, Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies, in collaboration with her students across several courses, first published Asian Art and Architecture: An Open Educational Resource in 2021. The image database continues to grow with each iteration of Luo’s courses. The database consists primarily of thematic mini-exhibitions authored by students in Luo’s…
Profiles in Open: Emily Kuder
Professor Emily Kuder, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, has been a long-time advocate and supporter of using open educational resources in her courses at Connecticut College. In 2019, she adopted and revised material for SPA 202: Spanish for the Professions. Her goals were to avoid expensive textbook costs and innovate instruction. “I hope the…
New Pressbooks Creator Guide
Information Services provides access to Pressbooks an ebook authoring tool used to write and publish openly licensed material. With Pressbooks, you can: Create textbooks, course modules and digital scholarship projects Apply an open license to your published work Export books in multiple digital and print formats Pressbooks is a platform used to create, customize and…
Last Night’s Faculty Showcase
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s Faculty Showcase of Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources. We heard about scholarly and creative work that lie outside the traditional journal and monograph publishing venues, innovative pedagogies that empower students to create and openly share information, and how technology can foster equity among students. Digital Scholarship …
Open Pedagogy & Pressbooks
Pressbooks is a platform used to create, customize and host your own original content, such as an open educational resource or a digital scholarship project. It can also be used as a teaching tool to engage students and create real-world assignments that can be shared with the public. In Professor Andy Lanoux’s FYS, students created…
Just Added: Wikipedia Workshops
We’ve received a lot of interest in Wikipedia editing assignments. Wiki Edu, a non-profit organization, makes it easy for instructors to create and integrate Wikipedia assignments into classes. They are hosting free webinars for faculty. The first date offered is February 7 but additional dates are available; view additional dates by clicking on the registration…
High Impact Assignment Idea: Editing Wikipedia
We haven’t posted about Wikipedia assignments in several years (5?!), but we’ve had a lot of questions and interest recently. So when I saw this in my inbox yesterday from Helaine Blumenthal at Wiki Education, I needed share it with you. If you are interested in Wikipedia assignments, read her message below and sign up!…
Faculty Recipient of CT State OER Grant Publishes Asian Art & Architecture Image Database
In April 2021 Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Di Luo was awarded a State of Connecticut Open Educational Resources (OER) Impact Grant for her proposal to publish a publicly-accessible image database in collaboration with her students across several courses in Asian art. Upon its launch in December 2021, Asian Art &…