Open Education Resources
Listed below are free educational resources available online to everyone (no login is required). These have been carefully selected to provide a background to digital humanities and to familiarise students and staff with the most recent research being undertaken in this emerging field. Click on the title or the cover to open the resource in a new window.
Digital Humanities in Practice [Playlist]
This playlist is part of the dariahTeach platform, an open-source, community-driven platform for high quality teaching and training materials for the digital arts and humanities. It is part of the course Introduction to Digital Humanities and the series Digital Humanities in Practice.
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries [OER]
With a focus on experiments in the digital humanities and grounded firmly in ‘maker’ culture, this open publication draws together over ninety scholars and practitioners from around the world who examine what it means to build things in the humanities.
Doing Digital Humanities [Bibliography]
Based in Europe, this up to date collection contains over one thousand links to scholarly items relevant to specific aspects of the Digital Humanities. Items in the collection have been tagged using the TaDiRAH taxonomy for research activities, objects and techniques.
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 [OER]
This open online collection of forty plus essays examines an array of thought-provoking perspectives on the field’s many sides. With a wide range of subjects including digital humanities and social justice, the role of statistics in humanities inquiry, gender bias in algorithms, the theory of digital humanities, and controversy in digital humanities, it collects together a who’s who of the field.
Introduction to Digital Humanities [OER]
Based on the Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH101) course at UCLA, taught by Johanna Drucker (with David Kim) in 2011 and 2012, this online coursebook (and related collection of resources) is meant to provide introductory materials to digital approaches relevant to a wide range of disciplines. The lessons and tutorials assume no prior knowledge or experience and are meant to introduce fundamental skills and critical issues in digital humanities.
This open collection of 25 scholarly essays seeks to answer the question of whether digital humanities challenges the basic assumptions of tech culture or instead reinforces tech cultures fundamental inequalities and biases. Showcasing feminist perspectives on topics including gaming, hashtag activism, historical methods, queer digital humanities and online political campaigns, it draws together an international group of leading voices in the field.
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 [OER]
With over fifty contributors, this open online collection mixes full-length scholarly articles with short essays, interviews and position statements on the identity, methods, techniques and various approaches to digital humanities.