Architectures for Digital Pedagogy

"Architectures for Digital Pedagogy: User - Centered and Collaborative Frameworks for Enabling Student DH Research": A keynote presentation at the "Digital Humanities and the Undergraduate Experience" symposium at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville on April 26-27, 2019.

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1. Architectures For Digital Pedagogy Harriett Green, Washington University in St. Louis “Digital Humanities and the Undergraduate Experience” User-Centered and Collaborative Frameworks for Enabling Student DH Research @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 1
2. What is Digital Pedagogy “But while digital humanities may seem like an intimidating, exponentially growing field with varying ideas of “insiders” and “outsiders,” you and your students are all already digital humanists, because you all use technology in your daily lives. At its best, the digital humanities is about engaging more critically with the intersections between technology and how we act, think and learn.” Adeline Koh, Hybrid Pedagogy @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 2
3. Affordances of Digital Media Participatory Encyclopedic Spatial Procedural @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 3
4. Need for Partnerships “A more mature DH institutional culture is one that recognizes that many forms of DH work — particularly those that involve computationally intensive and/or data - intensive analysis — are most effectively implemented through partnerships between individuals with diverse skill sets.” Building Capacity for Digital Humanities report @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 4
5. Infrastructures Libraries are infrastructures not only because they are ubiquitous and persistent, but also, and primarily, because they are made of interconnected networks that undergird all that foment, that create what Pierre Bourdieu would call “structuring structures” that support Weinberger’s “messy, rich networks of people and ideas.’… Shannon Mattern @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 5
6. Architectures: Service Infrastructures @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 6
7. Teaching @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 7
8. Publishing @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 8
9. Case study: Service Building • Building networks of relationships for sustaining digital humanities initiatives and work • Building workflows to facilitate digital humanities work by undergraduates • Service and staffing infrastructure becoming inherent to institutional functions @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 9
10. Architectures: Embedded Research @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 10
11. Emblem Scholars http://emblematica.library.illinois.edu/ @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 11
12. Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis http://thedividedcity.com/mapping-lgbtq-st-louis/ @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 12
13. HDW Summer Fellows https://library.wustl.edu/taking-a-team-approach-wu-libraries- and-the-humanities-digital-workshop/ @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 13
14. Case study: Embedded Research • Active involvement of undergraduates in critical phases of the research • Build sustainable long-term research engagement • Alignment with the goals of the institution and broader research outcomes @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 14
15. Architectures: Adaptive Spaces @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 15
16. John M. Olin Library Transformation • Research Studio • DaVE • A/V Studio • Instructional computer classrooms @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 16
17. Case study: Adaptive Spaces • Responsive and reflective of student and curricular needs • Build in sustainable avenues and resources for engagement with technology • Partner with campus stakeholders to amplify and strengthen the use of the spaces @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 17
18. Not Just Tools  Holistic Use Digital Literacies Information Visual Media Cultural Critical Operational “The awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesize digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others, in the context of specific life situations, in order to enable constructive social action; and to reflect upon this process.” (Martin & Grudzecki 2010) @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 18
19. 19 PARTNERSHIPS FOR DH PEDAGOGY Assess Continually Clarify goals and priorities Ensure a shared understanding of aims and mission Be flexible in approach and strategy Create plan for workflows and allocated resources Memoranda of Understanding, Service Agreement, project agreements @greenharr | CC-BY-NC
20. References • Emblematica Online, http://emblematica.library.illinois.edu/ • Kirk, Anne, et al. Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning. ECAR Working Paper. May 2017. https://library.educause.edu/resources/2017/5/building-capacity- for-digital-humanities-a-framework-for-institutional-planning • Koh, Adeline. “Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview.” Hybrid Pedagogy. Published August 14, 2014. http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/introducing- digital-humanities-work-undergraduates-overview/ • Mapping LBGTQ St. Louis, http://thedividedcity.com/mapping-lgbtq-st-louis/ • Martin, Allan and Grudziecki, Jan. “DigEuLit: Concepts and Tools for Digital Literacy Development.” Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences 5, no. 4 (2006): 249- 267. • Mattern, Shannon. “Library As Infrastructure.” Places Journal (June 2014). https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure/ • SourceLab, https://sourcelab.history.illinois.edu/ @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 20
21. THANK YOU Harriett Green Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services, Washington University Libraries Harriett.green@wustl.edu | @greenharr @greenharr | CC-BY-NC 21