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Faculty teaching inside prisons need robust, culturally-responsive, and trauma-informed training materials. In this project, ITHAKA Labs worked with the University of Puget Sound to evaluate a learning management system and course delivery design for faculty who are interested in, or already teaching in, higher education in prison (HEP) programs.
This research project was conducted by Ithaka S+R and JSTOR Labs to investigate the challenges facing scholarly conferences and opportunities for change.
In June, July, and August 2023, this cohort of 4 Innovation Fellows spent 9 weeks learning and applying design thinking and lean startup skills in the educational/library space
In July and August 2022, this inaugural cohort of 8 Innovation Fellows spent 6 weeks learning and applying design thinking and lean startup skills in the educational/library space
Text analysis can be difficult to learn. Two national institutes seek to make learning text analysis easier for teachers, students, and researchers.
Conducting research without internet access is challenging. This project tested a new, offline version of JSTOR designed specifically for prison education programs and their students.
Constellate was the only text analysis platform that integrated access to scholarly content and open educational resources into a cloud-based lab to help faculty more easily and effectively teach text analysis and data skills.
A collection of full-length interviews from the MLK documentary King in the Wilderness – from the cutting room floor to your classroom.
The cultural history of baseball, one player at a time. Cultural History Baseball Cards is a proof of concept showcasing a way to use Linked Open Data to connect diverse corpora.
