Promotion & Tenure

2011

New Media in the Academy: Labor and the Production of Knowledge in Scholarly Multimedia. Burgess, Helen J., and Hamming, Jeanne. (2011). Digital Humanities Quarterly, 5(3). The authors argue that acceptance of digital scholarhip as a valid form of intellectual endeavor has been slow to materialize in the humanities mainly because of a misunderstanding of the kinds of effort that is required for devleoping multimedia scholarship. For scholars working in multimedia, this reluctance to adapt to changes in the academy obscures both their intellectual contributions and their material labor.

2010

Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work. Modern Language Association Wiki. (2010). This short guide gathers a collection of questions evaluators can ask about a project, a checklist of what to look for in a project, and some ideas about how to find experts to review a work. It is an annotated expansion on the Evaluating Digital Work (PDF), which was prepared as a one page checklist for a presentation to the Association of Departments of English and Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADE/ADFL) in 2007 and contains links to other sources on digital scholarship.

2009

E-Learning as Evidence of Educational Scholarship: A Survey of Chairs of Promotion and Tenure Committees at U.S. Medical Schools. Ruiz, Jorge G. MD; Candler, Christopher S. MD; Qadri, Syeda Sobiya PhD; Roos, Bernard A. MD. (2009). Academic Medicine, 84(1) 47-57. [Free access]. This article reports the results of a study to ascertain the attitudes of chairs of U.S. medical school promotion committees toward e-learning and how their institutions recognize and reward faculty for e-learning as a scholarly activity.

2007

Tenure, Promotion and Digital Publication. Raben, Joseph. (2007). Digital Humanities Quarterly, 1(1). Celebrating the launch of the online journal Digital Humanities, Raben explores the past and current climate for acceptance of digital scholarship in the humanities as it is regarded by the gatekeepers of tenure and promotion.

Access to Scholarly Works

2010

Open Access, Self-Archiving, and Long-term Digital Stewardship for University of North Texas (UNT) Scholarly Works. (May, 2010). Written by the Open Access Policy Committee, this (draft) policy covers all forms of digital scholarly works created by UNT community members. To address the goal to provide the broadest possible access to scholarly works produced by the UNT faculty, this policy also includes the peer-reviewed, accepted-for-publication scholarly articles authored or co-authored while a UNT community member and subsequent to the adoption of this policy.

Open Education & eLearning @ SBCTC. Tom Caswell, Open Education Policy Advocate at the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, is leading an Open Course Library project, which involves designing and openly licensing their 81 highest enrolled courses. The first 42 courses have been completed. This project is one of three funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington State Legislature. The cost of instructional materials for this project is capped at $30 per course. Learn more at: Creative Commons blog entry, Open Course Library, and the Student Completion Initiative 2009-2012.

Open Licensing Policy - The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges also passed an open licensing policy for their system. The policy provided that all digital software, educational resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License.