Digital Scholarship at UCSC Libraries

Digital Instruction Project

The Digital Scholarship Commons, in partnership with the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and UCSC Online Education, invites applications for participation in the 2021–2022 Digital Instruction Project.

The Digital Instruction Project is a yearlong program that supports instructional faculty in developing and implementing an impactful digital assignment for an upcoming class. The program offers time and space for focused and thoughtful conversation about pedagogy with a dedicated faculty cohort; one-on-one consultations with digital scholarship librarians for assignment development; and customized support for students as the digital assignment is implemented.

In selecting participants, we look for digital assignments that aim to improve student learning, solve a problem, or take advantage of an opportunity. Assignments can be newly designed or existing assignments that you envision transforming by means of a digital method or tool.

Participants receive:

• Enhanced support from digital scholarship librarians—including expanded consultations and customized resource development—for design and implementation of a digital assignment
• Access to digital scholarship student peer support during assignment completion
• Focused discussions with a cohort of faculty/instructor peers around digital assignment design, implementation, and assessment

Participants commit to:

• Design a digital assignment for implementation in Fall, Winter, or Spring 2021-22
• Work individually with digital scholarship librarians to develop their digital assignment (number of consultations to be determined on an as needed basis)
• Participate in DIP cohort meetings, to be held 1-2 times per quarter

Early decision deadline — June 1st, 2021

Early decision applicants may propose assignments to be implemented in Fall, Winter, or Spring 2021-22. For Fall assignments, applicants will be expected to work with digital scholarship librarians during the Summer to design their digital assignment and will not have the benefit of cohort interaction prior to the start of the quarter.

Fall decision deadline — October 4th, 2021

Fall decision applicants will be accepted as space allows and will be expected to implement their assignment in either Winter or Spring Quarters.
 

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