#dariahTeach is an asynchronous teaching and learning platform designed as open-source, multilingual, community-driven resource for high-quality teaching and training materials for the digital arts and humanities. The platform currently has six courses and two workshops developed in English (three of them translated in French, Hungarian, and Greek; Spanish versions are also under development). Its 80 videos on YouTube have been viewed over 50.000 times. In April 2018 several members of the original #dariahTeach team were awarded a grant for IGNITE: Design Thinking & Making in the Arts & Sciences which builds on #dariahTeach to develop a 20 ECTS module that fosters cross-sectorial curricula by combining entrepreneurship and technology with arts and heritage. The Geohumanities Working Group is also developing learning materials.
#dariahTeach is currently transitioning into a new phase, harnessing and channeling previous investment by offering a one-stop-shop for peer-reviewed, quality assessed publication of training and teaching materials delivered within a homogenous framework. This will enable the long-term growth and development of #dariahTeach towards the establishment of a novel organisational model for sustaining peer-reviewed open access teaching materials. We believe that training materials deserve to be recognized as publications in their own right, and therefore, the main goal for the next phase of #dariahTeach is to get recognised as a publication, functioning like any other peer-reviewed, community-driven journal. We also aim for raising the peer-review model that #dariahTeach will establish at the forefront of new innovative models of publishing peer-reviewed, collaborative creation. #dariahTeach was recently awarded a sustainability funding from DARIAH that would enable this transition. This grant facilitated the organisation of a #dariahTeach Publishing Board meeting as part of the annual DARIAH event (Warsaw 16-18 May 2019) in which the members of the group discussed the Editorial Structure, and potential publication lifecycle.
The aim of the proposed Working Group meeting is to use the community forum that the DARIAH Annual Event provides to discuss with existing and potential #dariahTeach contributors the best ways to move this project forward. Since the project is mostly based on voluntary work and given the limited set of resources, we would like to gauge the community's reaction to this endeavour before we move forward. How could community members contribute? What resources do they need? How could #dariahTeach teaching and learning content be integrated into their teaching/research practice? What support would they like to see #dariahTeach providing them with in order to be able to contribute to the project, e.g. by developing a teaching unit (course, workshop, training etc.), translating or adding to existing content? What synergies could be developed with other Working Groups and teaching/research projects so this new phase can be socially sustainable, thus ensuring an ongoing, productive relationship
between its users and its creators? The goal of this Working Group meeting is to provide us with a more concrete plan for the future of #dariaTeach, while also helping us attract new content, and helping potential collaborators/ contributors make the decision to share and publish their teaching/training materials.