This toolkit provides useful background, tips and strategies, and assessment design templates for instructors who would like to introduce collaborative digital research projects in their classrooms. The ultimate goal of this toolkit is to make designing digital research projects for students easier and less daunting for instructors. Information is divided into the following sections:
If you want to learn more about digital research or get help with implementing a digital project for your students, please contact us at digitalresearch@american.edu.
Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom
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Digital Scholarship in Education
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Digital Humanities Pedagogy
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Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age
Brave New Digital Classroom
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Digital Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum by Jeff McClurken, Jeremy Boggs, Adrianne Wadewitz, Anne Ellen Geller, Jon Beasley-Murray (2013) presents arguments for using digital research projects and their impact on digital literacy for undergraduates.
Digital Storytelling: A Meaningful Technology-Integrated Approach for Engaged Student Learning by Alaa Sadik (2008) is a journal article that reviews the benefits of integrating technology into the curriculum. The article follows a student digital storytelling project and benefits to student engagement and understanding of curricular content were noted. - Access requires logging in with an AU email address.
Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom by Bernard R. Robin (2008) is an article proposing a framework for developing digital storytelling tools.
