Digital Humanities: Teaching
This guide supports Digital Humanities scholarship & practice at the University of Otago, by connecting people to the methods & tools, projects & other people transforming humanities scholarship in the digital realm
Getting started
Teaching Digital Humanities
Bringing Digital Humanities into the classroom [blogpost] by Introductory thoughts and links on what might be involved in teaching Digital Humanities theory, methods and practice to undergraduates.
Digital pedagogy
Digital pedagogy in the humanities: concepts, models, experiments | MLA Commons [web resource]A peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research, organised by keyword,
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Digital Humanities pedagogy [book]Examples and strategies for teaching DH methods in a variety of subjects/levels.
Creative writing in the digital age theory, practice, and pedagogy [book]Using digital media to teach creative writing (exercises).
Teaching and the Digital Humanities | AAAS [transcript]2015 panel discussion between nine scholars reflecting on their experiences of teaching Digital Humanities on North American campuses.
Hybrid pedagogy [eJournal]Hybrid Pedagogy is a community, a conversation, a collaboration, a school, and a journal. It is a place to discuss Critical Digital Pedagogy by advocating for students and fostering awareness of academic hierarchies.
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Digital Humanities teaching approaches & syllabi
Digital Humanities programs & syllabi | CUNY Digital Humanities resource guideLinks to some great examples of undergraduate and postgraduate Digital Humanities programmes and syllabi. Primarily North American, with some British examples.
Digital Humanities Education | Zotero LibraryAn open, collaboratively-built, digital humanities bibliography examining different approaches to digital humanities education. Includes syllabi and curriculum planning documents, as well as as articles about open education, networked pedagogies, and more.
Best-practice methods & open resources
AKO AotearoaAko Aotearoa leads the drive to establish what counts as good and effective tertiary teaching in Aotearoa, New Zealand and to make it happen, so that teaching is better, is better valued and produces the best possible educational outcomes for all learners and the nation.
Teaching & learning practices | HastacFostering innovative and open methods and tools in the classroom and beyond.
Education / OER resources | Creative CommonsA broad list of sites and techniques for locating Open Educational Resources (OER) via Creative Commons. OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
How not to teach Digital Humanities
- How not to teach Digital Humanities Dr. Ryan Cordell, Assistant Professor of English, Northeastern UniversityRyan Cordell, Assistant Professor of English @ Northeastern University talks at the Kelvin Smith Library 2014 Digital Scholarship Colloquium
about thinking strategically about digital pedagogy in relationship to particular classes, curricula, and institutions. He covers strategies that have worked well (and a few that haven't) in his own classes.
We want your feedback!
This guide continues to evolve, and we really welcome your feedback so we can continue to improve it. Please let us know if you find:
- Incorrect or irrelevant details, tools that don't work, dead links or otherwise unhelpful information
- Helpful details, tools, links or information that you think need to be on the guide, but aren't currently.
We'd also love to hear from you if you want to have your project featured on the guide, or would like to be profiled on the Connect&Collaborate@Otago page. Email Alexander Ritchie, with any comments or suggestions on how we can improve it.
Viva Digital Humanities!