This white paper was used in part for a successful course development grant proposal from the Music Library Association. The resulting deliverable from the grant work was a 15-week syllabus and accompanying course materials, published as an open education resource on OER Commons (access at https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/104427). The…[Read more]

The NEMLA Music Librarianship Course working group developed a syllabus for a course that is centered around the principles of critical music librarianship with a particular focus on social justice and antiracist practices. This initiative is unique from general music librarianship courses offered in LIS programs currently, because we specifically…[Read more]

Los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe constituyen un campo científico que ha sido poco estudiado y delimitado. Los paradigmas euro centristas y de la colonialidad del saber han influido en la comu-nicación científica. La investigación tuvo como propósito delimitar la estructura del campo…[Read more]

Writing Assessment Literacy (WAL). However, it is neglected in Iranian context. Taking the importance of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience with regard to writing assessment, the present quantitative study made attempt to investigate the effect of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience…[Read more]

Word acquisition was one of the important and essential parts for language learning. One of the learning difficulties that many L2 learners at all ages and proficiency levels face was meaningful vocabulary learning and retention as opposed to rote memorization of L2 words. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]

Due to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, obtaining consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral performance is rater training. Recently, the Multifaceted Rasch…[Read more]

Data plays an ever-expanding role in our daily lives: we collect personal data through smart watches, feed algorithms with clicks and shares, and platforms monetize our every move.
In this course, students will explore how data is collected, analyzed, and used, critique the systems of power that shape and are shaped by data practices, and…[Read more]

La formación de valores humanos ha sido uno de los aspectos priorizados por el sistema de educación superior en Cuba. La carrera de Ingeniería Automática de la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Cuba, ha desarrollado una concepción sistémica de la educación sustentada en valores, sin embargo, no existen estudios que analicen s…[Read more]

Audiovisual archives in local television stations favor the processing and preservation of audio-visual information for his retrival. The peculiarities of the processing of audiovisual information on local television stations archives have been little addressed from the scientific production. In the methodological order, there is a…[Read more]

Digital Humanities has become a “hot” topic in academia over the last few years (as of 2012), primarily in research and scholarship. While many push forward into new realms of using technology to articulate cool findings, others at non research intensive universities are moving forward with engaging their undergraduate students in var ious for…[Read more]

This book brings together thirteen contributors from diverse backgrounds – mean and women born in Cameroon, England, Scotland, South Africa, Zambia. What they all have in common is years of service within their respective communities, working individually and within projects and programmes, with both young people and adults to build social c…[Read more]

New research shows that cultural and heritage tourism is worth around $6.4 million per year to the Camden Local Government Area.
Destination NSW (2019) defines cultural and heritage tourism as ‘a tool of economic development that achieves economic growth through attracting visitors from outside a host community, who are motivated wholly or in p…[Read more]

June Julian’s paintings of old trees provided a strong basis for the methodology of aesthetic inquiry In her doctoral research at New York University. In 1994, from that phenomenological grounding, she developed a pioneering ecology art education project on the World Wide Web, and then invited the world to join in. With a genesis in her studio art…[Read more]

In this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]

In this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]

Public art in all its forms is present across the Macarthur Region. The Camden, Campbelltown and Wollondilly Local Government Areas on Sydney’s southwest metropolitan fringe cover the Macarthur region.
Some of the Macarthur region’s public art is hidden in plain sight, and we pass it every day without a thought. This post examines the types of…[Read more]

Keep your eyes open in central Campbelltown for inspiring public art installations that brighten up dull spaces around the town.
The Campbelltown Arts Centre, in conjunction with Campbelltown City Council and the NSW Government, have a program to re-invigorate the city centre using public art.