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…
An Introduction to ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world’s largest archive of digital social science data. ICPSR provides data and resources to a community of hundreds of institutions around the world including students, scholars, policy analysts, policymakers, government officials, and the media. It is available to all Connecticut College students, faculty and…
Open Flint Data Collection: Workshop Thursday
We invite you, and your students, to learn about and engage with the Open Flint Data Collection. As members of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences, Connecticut College faculty, staff and students have access to its…
Announcing CT Digital Scholarship Exchange Workshops
The Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange is a collaborative program hosted by Connecticut College and Trinity College. Designed to create opportunities for faculty to learn about digital scholarship, both institutions host workshops, tours, and other events to introduce interested faculty to different digital scholarship approaches and discuss core competencies in project management and sustainability. Fall Workshop…
What We Read This Summer
Over the summer weeks, one of the things we like to do is catch up with our professional reading. Here are just a few of the things we read this summer. It’s Time for Academe to Take Podcasting Seriously Written by members of a working group within the Modern Language Association (MLA), this article discusses…
OER Grant Awards Announcement
We are happy to announce the outstanding accepted proposals for the Connecticut College OER Grant. This round included more applications than we have seen since pre-pandemic. These are innovative projects that not only result in cost savings but exemplify transformative teaching strategies. Congratulations to the faculty below and thank you for your work. Sana Abdi,…
Scholarship Support Services for Summer
Are you researching, writing, or creating this summer? Information Services’ Scholarship Support Services details the many ways we can assist you in achieving your scholarship goals. Whether you are working with novel methodologies and techniques, collaborating in new ways with colleagues and students, managing data requirements for grants, Information Services can partner with you to…
Hypothesis Summer Workshops
Hypothesis is the social reading/collaborative annotation tool that can be added as an activity to your Moodle site. Register for the following summer workshops to learn how you can use Hypothesis for class assignments. If you are new to Hypothesis, please email Ariela McCaffrey for an overview of adding the activity to your Moodle site….
RS&CT at Camp Teach & Learn
Here is where you can find us at Camp Teach & Learn this week: Embedding the Writing Center & Library into Your FYSWednesday 24 May 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ePortfolios for Increased FYS & Pathway EngagementWednesday 24 May 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM Engaging & Teaching with AI ToolsThursday 25 May 2:45 PM to…
Critical Instructional Design Reading Group Wrap-Up Report
As the semester sprints feverishly towards its end, we in Instructional Technology wanted to take a moment to reflect back upon our overall experience with our colleagues in the Critical Instructional Design Reading Group. We walked away with new knowledge and potential strategies for teaching and learning in the fall, and we are excited to…