ACDH-CH TOOL GALLERY 8.2

In recent years, several academic open access e-learning platforms have been developed. They offer teachers, trainers, students, and young researchers the opportunity to exchange, share, and expand their knowledge in their respective academic fields. These collaborative work forms an important contribution to the development of any academic field. Yet planning, designing, and producing effective online training materials is a skill that needs to be acquired and trained as well. Our workshop therefore aims at providing researchers, who want to share their expertise online with students, with a toolkit they can easily apply and use in the creation of their (first) online training materials. This Tool Gallery is a two-day event. On day 1, we will meet online and start with the introductory basics of “online learning” or “e-learning”, followed by an overview of academic learning platforms and knowledge hubs and the Open Educational Resources landscape in Austria. Participants will learn how they can use those platforms to publish their own content open access. In addition, our experts will provide theoretical input on instructional design and interactive methods. On day 2 we start with putting yesterday’s theoretical input into practice when we design and plan our e-learning frameworks and concepts. In small groups and guided by our tutors, participants will be conceptualise and design their own online training material on a topic of their choice. Finally, a so-called World Café allows participants to take a closer look at several best practice examples for online learning in Digital Humanities. Experts and participants discuss requirements, didactics, and teaching experiences with e-learning tools and virtual knowledge hubs. The Tool Gallery is supported by CLARIAH-AT.