Students as Editors: Curating and Glossing an Open Anthology of Transatlantic Literature

Open educational resources create opportunities for undergraduates to access and interact with their course readings. The rights that OERs allow let students participate in the creation of new open digital scholarly editions in ways that were previously unavailable to them. In “Premodern Worlds,” a literature course at Penn State Abington, a Renaissance Literature professor and a Librarian who specializes in OER teamed up to transform a traditional literature course with open pedagogical approaches and open educational resources. In this paper, we will talk about how we piloted a multi-year student-created open textbook project by rethinking what coursework can be and what the affordances are when students become creators rather than consumers of literary scholarship. We will describe the pedagogical challenges of building a project-based open assignment that meets the requirements of the university curricula, the project management design, the experience of working with students as collaborators, and the considerations around permissions, copyright, and student labor rights.

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Work Title Students as Editors: Curating and Glossing an Open Anthology of Transatlantic Literature
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  1. CHRISTINA ELIZABETH RIEHMAN-MURPHY
  2. Marissa O Nicosia
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  1. open pedagogy
  2. open educational resources
  3. English Literature
  4. American Literature
  5. Premodern worlds
License CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial)
Work Type Conference Proceeding
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  1. Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2021
Publication Date 2021
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Deposited May 14, 2021

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    • Open educational resources create opportunities for undergraduates to access and interact with their course readings. The rights that OERs allow let students participate in the creation of new open digital scholarly editions in ways that were previously unavailable to them. In “Premodern Worlds,” a literature course at Penn State Abington, a Renaissance Literature professor and a Librarian who specializes in OER teamed up to transform a traditional literature course with open pedagogical approaches and open educational resources. In this paper, we will talk about how we piloted a multi-year student-created open textbook project by rethinking what coursework can be and what the affordances are when students become creators rather than consumers of literary scholarship.
    • The course, “Premodern Worlds,” explores how early British and American literature depicts both known and imagined worlds. Due to their time period, many texts are available in their original format in the public domain, but lack the background information and glosses that traditional anthologies offer and that are integral for student comprehension. Because they are in the public domain, however, many texts, have been made more accessible for students in student-edited open anthology textbooks like The Open Anthology of Early American Literature or in highly interactive openly licensed digital sites like The Pulter Project.
    • In this paper, we will describe the pedagogical challenges of building a project-based open assignment that meets the requirements of the university curricula, the project management design, the experience of working with students as collaborators, and the considerations around permissions, copyright, and student labor rights.
    • Open educational resources create opportunities for undergraduates to access and interact with their course readings. The rights that OERs allow let students participate in the creation of new open digital scholarly editions in ways that were previously unavailable to them. In “Premodern Worlds,” a literature course at Penn State Abington, a Renaissance Literature professor and a Librarian who specializes in OER teamed up to transform a traditional literature course with open pedagogical approaches and open educational resources. In this paper, we will talk about how we piloted a multi-year student-created open textbook project by rethinking what coursework can be and what the affordances are when students become creators rather than consumers of literary scholarship. We will describe the pedagogical challenges of building a project-based open assignment that meets the requirements of the university curricula, the project management design, the experience of working with students as collaborators, and the considerations around permissions, copyright, and student labor rights.
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