Undergraduate Teaching – THATCamp Digital Pedagogy ATX 2015 http://dpatx.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:12:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Session Proposal: Additional DH Objectives or Learning Outcomes for Core Courses http://dpatx.thatcamp.org/2015/11/05/dh-objectives/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:51:18 +0000 http://dpatx.thatcamp.org/?p=232

What supplemental objectives or learning outcomes might be added to core courses incorporating digital humanities?

This question is meant to focus discussions on pedagogy toward a practical end. At both the undergraduate and graduate level, much of what is done in the college and university classrooms often reflects concern with assessments that echo course objectives/outcomes and align with program requirements and accreditation justification. Do objectives for undergraduate courses–English 1302, for example–need updating to enable one to incorporate digital humanities into the pedagogical repertoire?

I would like to explore how strategies for teaching through and/or learning with digital humanities might already coordinate logically with existing objectives/outcomes and how objectives/outcomes might need to be expanded or tweaked so that courses may be refurbished and made more relevant to students.

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Undergraduates as Scholar-Collaborators in Digital Projects http://dpatx.thatcamp.org/2015/11/02/undergraduates-as-scholar-collaborators-in-digital-projects/ Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:06:24 +0000 http://dpatx.thatcamp.org/?p=229

In this session, participants will share ideas, challenges (either anticipated or experienced), and best practices for engaging students as scholar-collaborators in digital projects that extend beyond the classroom.  We will discuss digital projects that hinge on collaboration between classrooms and community partners such as non-profit organizations, archives, and libraries.  Such collaboration can provide valuable opportunities for undergraduates to conduct research and build digital literacies while advancing the mission of community and library partners by, for example, enhancing access to digital archival collections.  However, such collaborations require careful planning and execution to ensure relevance for everyone involved.  Whether you have led or contributed to a digital classroom collaboration with a community partner, or are interested in potentially doing so in the future, this session will provide an opportunity to pose questions and share expertise, experience, and considerations for planning and assessment.  Local faculty and instructor participants are encouraged to invite undergraduates they have supervised on digital classroom projects to contribute to the discussion about the benefits and challenges of undergraduate participation in collaborative, community-engaged digital projects.

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