{"id":20030,"date":"2020-05-07T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=20030"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:20","slug":"shawn-graham-discusses-online-course-crafting-digital-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2020\/shawn-graham-discusses-online-course-crafting-digital-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Graham Discusses Online Course: Crafting Digital History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Digital Historian, Professor Shawn Graham, talks about his online course, HIST 3814\/DIGH 3814: Crafting Digital History with Ainslie Coghill and Nick Ward. A short excerpt can be found below with the full story, “Crafting Digital Learning: Digital History online course focuses on learning through collaboration, compassion, and glorious failures<\/a>“, available online. Learn more about this exciting online course that challenges students to study History differently and makes it okay to “fail”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The COVID-19 health pandemic has challenged postsecondary institutions to extensively reconfigure their teaching and learning models. And while there has long been impassioned discussion on how the contemporary university might continue to evolve to match our increasingly digitally centred realities, the health crisis necessitated that all classes move online in the span of about a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoving everything to the web all at once presents a challenge for teachers and students,\u201d says Professor of History and Digital Humanities, Shawn Graham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t \u2018online learning\u2019; it\u2019s emergency content delivery. Either way, the result can feel like it\u2019s divorced from the person who created it, and their intensely personal research and teaching style.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nevertheless, Carleton University\u2019s faculty and instructors have answered the call, made sacrifices, and prioritized students\u2019 wellbeing while working through this unprecedented full transition to online teaching and learning.<\/p>\n

Luckily for Graham, he has had several years to fine tune his online course, Crafting Digital History<\/a> (which was first developed courtesy of an eCampusOntario grant). The third-year methodology course is, in part, a reflection of Graham\u2019s own trajectory as both an academic and teacher of Digital History. \u201c\u2018Digital history\u2019 isn\u2019t just the history of the internet or the web; it\u2019s also about how what we can know or what questions we can ask are changed by the fact of the digital. What does history look like when you can \u2018read\u2019 tens of thousands of documents at once, right? It\u2019s also about what a historical perspective implies for the future<\/em> of digital technologies and how knowledge is constructed,\u201d explains Prof. Graham.<\/p>\n

The open access version<\/a> is available for the general public to follow along week by week and to participate. Graham even offers a \u201csocial chat\u201d and \u201cquestions chat\u201d for open access participants to discuss their progress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital Historian, Professor Shawn Graham, talks about his online course, HIST 3814\/DIGH 3814: Crafting Digital History with Ainslie Coghill and Nick Ward. A short excerpt can be found below with the full story, “Crafting Digital Learning: Digital History online course focuses on learning through collaboration, compassion, and glorious failures“, available online. Learn more about this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20032,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030\/revisions\/20032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}