Overview
What is digital pedagogy? The Digital Pedagogy Lab, the educational outreach branch of Hybrid Pedagogy, an open access, peer-reviewed journal that combines critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy, defines Digital Pedagogy in the following way:
“Digital Pedagogy is precisely not about using digital technologies for teaching and, rather, about approaching those tools from a critical pedagogical perspective. So, it is as much about using digital tools thoughtfully as it is about deciding when not to use digital tools, and about paying attention to the impact of digital tools on learning.”
In his introduction to the MLA Digital Pedagogy Unconference (2013), Brian Croxall offers a a similar, perhaps broader definition of digital pedagogy, stating that it: “is the use of electronic elements to enhance or to change the experience of education.”
Digital pedagogy is a common thread that runs through all of our service areas, but I focus particularly on the multiple intersections of digital pedagogy, digital humanities, student research, and project based learning.
Our office focuses on supporting DH within the classroom, though we also consult on research-related projects in collaboration with university partners. The NYU Digital Humanities website is a great place to learn more about the digital scholarship and opportunities happening in our community. Our team tends to concentrate on supporting authentic student research, assessment and group work strategies, and solving issues of sustainable and scalable infrastructure. We provide:
- consultations on the use of DH in the classroom
- curricular design and content production
- hands on technical support for faculty and students
- department- and class-based workshops and overviews of DH methodology
Check out our Tools page for ideas on specific topics. Contact us at fas-edtech-group@nyu.edu if you would like to discuss a DH idea for a course!
Guides
NYU Humanities Center
Posts opportunities for DH programs and grants.
Resources for DH + pedagogy
Examines different approaches to digital humanities education. Includes syllabi and curriculum planning documents, as well as as articles about open education, networked pedagogies, and more. Members are encouraged to help build the collection.
Explore current and past projects, grant opportunities, and helpful resources for digital scholarship around NYU.
An open, peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable pedagogical artifacts for humanities scholars in development by the Modern Language Association.
Koh offers tips for those who want to incorporate digital humanities into their undergraduate classrooms and/or lead introductory digital humanities workshops at their institutions; also includes an annotated list of additional resources.
Posner gives an overview of seven genres of digital humanities projects, and the types of skills and tools interested people will need to embark on such projects.
Partners
NYU Libraries – Data Services: Data Services will offer consultations and group workshops on a variety of topics. Librarian Andrew Battista (andrew.battista@nyu.edu) has expertise in using GIS and visualization and can arrange for consultations. Specific services include:
- one-on-one consultations on GIS, qualitative data tools, and quantitative data tools
- help identifying datasets
- group workshops and special programming
NYU Libraries – Digital Scholarship Services: Digital Scholarship Services started an alias dh.help@nyu.edu, that helps us route support requests to the proper resource. If you have a question about a DH project, feel free to use this email. They also offer consultations on:
- Omeka (open source curation and archives platform) and WordPress for scholarship
- bibliographic management
- copyright and general issues related to the use of digital tools in research.
NYU Center for the Humanities: The Center is the hub for all DH programming and research. It brings together vital research communities and offers funding.
Examples
A Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project: Building Histories of the National Mall
Histories of the National Mall is a digital public history project developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This guide details each phase of creating Histories of the National Mall, mallhistory.org, including planning, interpretative approach, user experience and design, testing, and outreach efforts of the project team.