Costas Papadopoulos1 & Susan Schreibman2

1Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studiesk.papadopoulos@maastrichtuniversity.nl @Papadopoulos_C

2 Professor in Digital Arts & Cultures.schreibman@maastrichtuniversity.nl @Schreib100

Project Partners

• National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Coordinator)

• Aarhus University (Denmark)

• Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information and Communication & Knowledge Technologies (Greece)

• Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (Serbia)

• Erasmus Rotterdam University (Netherlands; left consortium June 2016)

• Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austria)

• Université de Lausanne and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland)

• University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg; entered June 2016)

What is the need?

• Digital Humanities is a relatively new field

• Would-be teachers have received little-to-no formal training in DH methods

• Formal teaching materials are password-protected and closed to outside communities

• Workshop materials exist in a variety of formats and in multiple sites

• Fragmented nature hinders comparison and reuse

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The Audience

Key Design Objectives:

Sharing and Reuse

• Instructors in Digital Humanities

• Instructors beyond DH

• Lone learners

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#dariahTeach is not a MOOC

● MOOCS have moved away from their original philosophical and pedagogical values

● x-MOOCS have become more market-oriented

● Difficult for smaller online teaching initiatives to compete

● #dariahTeach supports similar values of cMOOCs: diversity, creativity, autonomy, openness, and community participation

#dariahTeach quality benchmark criteria

What the Project Delivered

• A redesign of Moodle to support asynchronous delivery of course content

• Eight multimodal courses/workshops

• The Introduction to Digital Humanities composed of videos

• Reports on sustainability, Quality Assurance etc.

#dariahTeach Courses

➢My Digital Humanities

What does DH mean to professionals in the field

➢Digital Humanities in Practice

Theory and method, disciplinary practice, standards, approaches

Introduction to Digital Humanities

#dariahTeach YouTube Channel

•302 subscribers

•84 videos

•46,000 views

#dariahTeach Platform StatsSept 2016 – Oct 2019

Site Visits: 16,464 visits• Europe 13,051• North America 1928• Asia 925• Oceania 204• South America 159• Africa 107• Central America 78• Unknown 12

• 96,876 pageviews, 64,204 unique pageviews

● April 2018 – August 2020

● 28 month grant to develop a 20 ECTS module to be designed for and delivered at a Masters level

● Partners○ Aarhus University

○ Austrian Academy of Sciences

○ Film By Aarhus

○ Cube Design Museum

○ Maastricht University

● Strong creative and cultural sector interaction & input

What We Will Teach / Our approach

• Our approach focuses on

• reflective learning

• active construction of knowledge

• with interdisciplinarity, technology, entrepreneurial practices, and innovation at its core.

• Maker cultures and Design Thinking are a pathway for co-creational problem-based learning

20 ECTS module

We are developing six 5 ECTS courses

Two are mandatory

• Course 1: Introduction to Design Thinking & Maker Culture

• Course 2: From Conception to Realisation: Workflows for Digital Projects and Products

Two are optional

• Course 3: Remaking Material Culture in Three-Dimensions: From Capturing to Printing

• Course 4: 3D Computer Graphics for Arts and Humanities: Building Virtual Reality Experiences

• Course 5: Storytelling for Digital Narratives and Blended Spaces

• Course 6: Game.Play.Design in the Arts and Humanities

Courses Consist of

Lessons: the theory, background, implementations, and state-of-the-art of each method are explained utilising text, videos, images, and interactive content;

Tutorials and Exercises: how to use software and technologies appropriate to each method (e.g. 3D digitisation etc.), designed with increasing levels of difficulty;

Scenarios and Case Studies (at least two in each unit), one of which will be hands-on and the other white-paper based.

• Ignite Courses to be released in January

• Teaching these courses in a flipped classroom setting in the MA Digital Cultures (FASoS)

• Masterclass for Heritage Professionals in early March

• Virtual Learning Environments

• Exposure of UM curriculum to an international audience

#dariahTeach: The Journal

• Peer-reviewed quality assessed publication

• Recognised as a publication, functioning like other peer-reviewed, community-driven publications

• Peer-review at forefront of innovative models of collaborative creation

Trusted User Group

• Two/Three peers (subject-expert, instructor, learner)

• Open Reviews and collaboration with authors

• Trusted User Group will get credit for their contribution

Facing the Challenges

• Production of online teaching/training materials more time consuming than for face-to-face teaching

• Redesigning material for an online audience is not straight forward

• Sustainability (additional streams of funding, institutional support etc.)

• Largely based on voluntary work in our ‘free time’

• Recognition of such efforts in an institutional setting (e.g. tenure, promotion)

• How does open education change the nature ofOur rolesAccess to educationDissemination of the scholarship we engage in

Universidad Complutense MadridDr Amelia del Rosario Sanz CabrerizoMáster en Letras Digitales

Professors will build several volunteer study groups; participants will be awarded in the final exam with 1 extra point

Subtitling in Spanish the videos from the Introduction to Digital Humanities course Translating Course Content: Text Encoding and the TEI & Multimodal Literacies

We are Open For Business > Submitting Videos for the Intro course

> Developing a Course> Translating/ Adding Course Content> Become a Trusted User (Reviewer)

Costas Papadopoulos1 & Susan Schreibman2

1Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studiesk.papadopoulos@maastrichtuniversity.nl @Papadopoulos_C

2 Professor in Digital Arts & Cultures.schreibman@maastrichtuniversity.nl @Schreib100