The OEPI will provide an opportunity for the development of OER publications that harness the energy of the digital humanities and the capacity of interactive digital publishing to empower students as co-creators of knowledge. Building from DH practice that emphasizes active learning, place-based scholarship, and an engagement with new forms of digital publication, the OEPI will foster pedagogy that brings students in as co-creators of social-justice oriented OER publications.
The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at the CUNY Graduate Center will host the “Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice” (OEPI), an advanced digital humanities summer institute that will support DH scholars’ design of OER publications and classroom assignments that build out from the community-based concerns of their students and that consciously foreground diverse, non-white perspectives.
The OEPI will extend the vibrant area of digital publishing to students and faculty alike, helping students gain transferable digital skills such as writing for public audiences and incorporating multimodal digital elements even as their work diversifies the OER canon. Crucially, the institute will support faculty with engaging their students as co-authors and co-creators of the DH and OER projects, fashioning publications that draw on and produce knowledge with and for thier students. This approach to DH and OER creation works towards our goals of disrupting the canon by producing reusable materials that reflect the voices of a diverse student population.
The OEPI was designed in collaboration with the Brown University Library. Brown Library’s ongoing “Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing” training institute supports scholars’ development of interpretive projects and digital publications that aim to diversify resources and expand audiences for DH scholarship. Applicants who may be interested in working on digital monographs should consider the Brown Institute; applicants interested in creating OER and teaching materials may be best suited for our institute.
The Institute will draw on the CUNY Graduate Center’s existing DH and digital pedagogy programs and initiatives, including the Digital Research Institute, Masters programs in Digital Humanities and Data Analysis & Visualization, the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. These programs evince the Graduate Center’s commitment to building a robust digital ecosystem that includes digital pedagogy, digital humanities research, and the development of tools and platforms for teaching and scholarly communication.
Institute Team
Matthew K. Gold, Project Director; Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and English and Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Krystyna Michael, Project Co-Director; Assistant Professor of English, Hostos Community College
Luke Waltzer, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Laurie Hurson, Curriculum Co-Director; Assistant Director of Open Education, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Robin Miller, Curriculum Co-Director; Open Educational Technologist, GC Digital Initiatives, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Janelle Poe, Graduate Student OER Specialist, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Lisa Rhody, Director of the Digital Humanities Research Institute and Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives,
Graduate Fellows, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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