Virtual Teaching with University Collections: Lessons learnt & ways forward
Practical demonstrations, lightning talks and discussions reflecting on a year of virtual collections teaching at University of Glasgow
About this event
This online free Zoom event, co-sponsored by University of Glasgow Collections Lab, Digital Cultural Heritage Lab & the LTDF Archives Unlocked project, will look back at the last year of technology-assisted virtual collections teaching, asking the questions: What worked? What failed? What lessons have been learnt? And what next?
Attendees will get the opportunity to see virtual collections teaching technology in action with demonstrations from Archives & Special Collections and The Hunterian. Virtual collections teachers & learners will share their experiences and thoughts through a series of lightning talks. And the event will conclude with a Roundtable Q&A asking: what’s next?
Agenda and timetable:
Part 1: 2.00-3.00
- Welcome and introduction – Maria Economou
- Demonstration of Archives & Special Collections Virtual Collections Classroom (VCC) – Bob MacLean
- Service provision and pedagogical strategies with ASC VCC – Bob MacLean & Johanna Green
- Using VCC for learning about records & evidence: a student’s perspective – Ash Charlton
- Demonstration of The Hunterian Virtual Classroom at the Hunterian Collections Study Centre at Kelvin Hall – Lizzie O’Neill
- Lessons learned from teaching Museum Studies and Digital Cultural Heritage students online with collections – Maria Economou
- Experience of teaching Curating the Sciences course with videos of objects – Nicky Reeves
- Teaching Global Economic and Social History in a Virtual Collections Classroom: Student Perspectives and Self-Reflections – Hannah Louise Clark
- How to be in two places at once: political objects and radical intent in the Scottish History classroom, 2021 – Catriona M. M. Macdonald
- Virtual teaching pre- and post- pandemic – Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania / Schoenberg Institute)
- AHRC project on Teaching with digitised collections in Higher Education: findings and lessons learned – Katie Eagleton & Kamila Oles (University of St Andrews)
Part 2: 3.05-3.30
- Roundtable discussion