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"A repository of scholarly materials for Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments (under contract with the Modern Language Association)"

Notes from a course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (CC-BY)

This app focussed on the history of Thetford priory provides a rich and interactive tour of the site, either for visitors to the ruins themselves, or others studying or interested in the period of history from a distance.

Suggested assignment for evaluating tools for use in the digital humanities

Clear marking rubrics for digital projects, with a focus on communication through different media.

"In creating The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning, we've brought together excerpts from some of our top titles, all written by experts in the field. We start with the basics, answering your questions and offering practical tips and advice. From there, we move into questions of theory and teaching online, and take a look at a couple different directions to explore in online teaching as it continues to grow."

"students are directed to unpack their own selfies for signifiers of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and other identity markers, and to write a thesis-driven essay based on this analysis"

"The goal of a blended approach is to join the best bits of face-to-face and online instruction. Classroom time can be used more effectively, for instance to cover challenging concepts or to address questions students may have on a current topic. Meanwhile, the online portion of the course can provide learners with multimedia-rich content at any time of day, accessed from college computer labs, on the move or at home, providing flexibility and convenience for learners."

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - a series of five courses on how to use QGIS 2.8, all available under CCBY 3.0

Includes rubrics, reflections, and examples of blogging with students in practice.

"A short literature review on open badges in Higher Education"

"What if we divided screen time into three categories: creative, interactive, and passive, then further divided our best content by skill-building, educational, and entertainment?"

"Today's schools are focusing on boosting kids' technological proficiency and warning them about the perils of the web. But something critical is missing from this education."

MIT's annotation studio draws on the OKFN annotation work and pulls into a pedagogical pattern.