DS106 is a digital storytelling course that began as a face-to-face course at the University of Mary Washington. In Spring of 2011, Jim Groom opened the course up to allow open online participants to join and become involved. That semester gave birth to a radio station, a TV station, an assignment bank with over 280 contributions, and an explosion of […]
Today Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Institute launch the Why Open Education Matters Video Competition. The competition will award cash prizes, provided by the Open Society Institute, of up to $25,000 for the best short videos that explain the use and promise of free, high-quality open educational resources and […]
Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School. The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) 2012 is scheduled for the 2nd – 6th July at the University of Oxford. DHOXSS delegates will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or publication of digital data in the […]
JISC Digitisation Programme » New JISC funding opportunties. JISC has issued 5 Invitations to Tender for Digital Infrastructure Reports. Bidders must have knowledge of the topic area and must be experienced in producing high quality reports. These are open Invitations to Tender and anyone may bid. 5 Invitations to Tender for Reports on: • Advantages […]
The student assistant bursary scheme is designed to enable up to 12 international students to participate in the Digital Humanities conference 2012 at the University of Hamburg (July 16-20). In order to provide a well-balanced allocation, the bursaries will be awarded to three students from North America/UK, three from Europe (excluding Germany/UK), three from Middle/South […]
PhD studentship – Develop sophisticated digital timelines of cultural data within an academic-industrial partnership | arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts. PhD studentship – Develop sophisticated digital timelines of cultural data within an academic-industrial partnership A PhD studentship is available at the Royal College of Art in London, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences […]
The Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy will work as a catalyst for faculty innovation bridging learning resources, curricula, and scholarly opportunity with appropriate academic technologies. The Fellow will plan, promote, and implement strategies to encourage faculty discourse about pedagogy, elearning tools, and the integration of digital media into teaching and scholarship. The Postdoctoral Fellow is a […]
Attention library school students and recent graduates! The Library of Congress recently announced an exciting new residency program in digital curation, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Program applications will be available later this year.
IMLS, working in partnership with the Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI), is developing a national residency program in digital curation. (For the purposes of this program, “digital curation” means the act of collecting, selecting, managing, making accessible, and preserving digital assets over long periods of time.)
Planning for the project has just begun and the first residents should be in place beginning in the summer of 2013
The NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities funds workshops and institutes on various topics in the digital humanities. For most institutes, attendance is free and includes reimbursement for travel and lodging.
