1. Making Digital History: students as partners in online learning, teaching and research Dr Jamie Wood, School of Humanities, University of Lincoln http://makingdigitalhistory.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/

2. Student as producer at Lincoln –“The focus of Student as Producer is the undergraduate student, working in collaboration with other students and academics. Undergraduate students will work alongside staff in the design and delivery of their teaching and learning programmes, and in the production of work of academic content and value. Curriculum review in History” http://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk/ New staff Curriculum review in History Why? institutional context

3. What? (see http://bit.ly/12D80ts)http://bit.ly/12D80ts Develop a suite for resources to support the use of Xerte across the History department (and more widely) Develop students’ capabilities as producers of digital History for a variety of public and academic audiences Students (individually and collaboratively) to make Xerte objects for assessed work and for audiences beyond academia

4. Where? modules and activities Modules –L1, L2, MA –Different types: Historical periods Types of sources Survey/ thematic Kinds of activities –Individual/ collaborative –Compulsory/ optional –Different levels of assessment

5. Who? the team 5 members of academic staff Support from Centre for Educational Research and Development Support from Library Student interns –Training in September –‘first responders’, dealing with queries and running office hours

6. When? is it happening Summer 2013: development phase Semester 1: 3 modules Semester 2: 1 module Activities within modules –Training workshop(s) –In-class activities, e.g. storyboarding in seminars –Tutorials

7. How? challenges 1.Assessment criteria 2.Task criteria and comparability a.Minimum criteria/ traffic lights b.Ensuring parity across levels/ modules 3.Not reinventing the wheel 4.Motivating the students (or, not scaring them off with Xerte)