Lecture within the conferene Teaching History in the Digital Age – Internation Perspectives #dhiha8, June 17-18, 2019 at the German Historical Institute in Paris, co-organised with the C2DH.

In my contribution, I will talk about a three-part course model that I taught at the University of Basel. The courses are intended to impart knowledge and skills about methods and practices of Digital History and to encourage students to apply this knowledge in other areas of their studies and possibly also in their future careers.

The presentation outlines the basic structure of the courses, describes the experiences after two cycles and discusses the challenges of teaching digital skills in the curriculum.

Dr Christiane Sibille is scientific collaborator and head “Digital Innovation” at the research centre Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (Dodis). She has held teaching positions on “Digital History” at the Department of History at the University of Basel since 2015 and is president of the Swiss association “History and Computing”.

Quelle: https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/5975

Lecture within the conferene Teaching History in the Digital Age – Internation Perspectives #dhiha8, June 17-18, 2019 at the German Historical Institute in Paris, co-organised with the C2DH.

Teaching digital history to undergraduate students is a big challenge: you have to both teach general digital literacy basics and be sensitive to the effects on the scientific environment. In my course of „digital cultures for historians“, the starting point is the status of scientific information. It helps to think about the construction of the web, the reading and the production of knowledge in a digital world. When students reach a more advanced level, the course transforms itself into an initiation to research: which forms of scientific information are available? Which political issues (open access) does it raise? How to differentiate primary and secondary source? What new materials are available for building History?

Quelle: https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/5948