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Conversation is the Key : A Short History of Smarthistory.org
Harris, Beth
Zucker, Steven
Open Ed (7th : 2010 : Barcelona)
art
art history
Smarthistory
textbooks
sustainability
OER
teaching
learning
conversation
instruction
Open access
Web-based instruction
Ensenyament virtual
Accés obert
Enseñanza virtual
Acceso libre
Smarthistory.org is a proven, sustainable model for open educational resources in the Humanities. We discuss lessons learned during its agile development. Smarthistory.org is a free, creative-commons licensed, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement or substitute for the traditional art history textbook. It uses conversation instead of the impersonal voice of the typical textbook in-order to reveal disagreement, emotion, and the experience of looking. The listener remains engaged with both the content and the interaction of the speakers. These conversations model close looking and a willingness to encounter and engage the unfamiliar. Smarthistory takes the inherent dialogic and multimedia nature of the web and uses it as a pedagogical method. This extendable Humanities framework uses an open-source content management system making Smarthistory inexpensive to create, and easy to manage and update. Its chronological timeline/chapter-based format integrates new contributions into a single historical framework, a structure applicable across the Humanities.
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Harris, B.; Zucker, S. (2010). Conversation is the Key: A Short History of Smarthistory.org. In Open ED 2010 Proceedings. Barcelona: UOC, OU, BYU.
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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Open University of the Netherlands
Brigham Young University