“If you could have any resource to help you better develop courses, and enrich students’ understandings of histories of art what would it be...?”
OPEN EDUCATION & PEDAGOGY RESOURCES
Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed resources that can be used for teaching, learning, assessment and research purposes. OER are publicly accessible for you to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute.
Here are some links to hubs for art and visual history specific OER. While mostly United States and Europe focused, they can provide a springboard for content creation and learning.
Books on Pedagogy
Websites
Thinking about researching pedagogy? Here are some links to journals, associations, and resources that might help guide and inspire you.
University Art Association of Canada/L'Association d'art des universités du Canada
The Universities Art Association of Canada provides a national voice for its membership, composed of university and college faculty, independent scholars and other art professionals in the fields of art, art history and visual culture.
Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)
Is a peer-populated platform for art history teachers. AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities. The site promotes discussion and reflection around new ways of teaching and learning in the art history classroom through a peer-populated blog, and fosters a collaborative virtual community for art history instructors at all career stages.
Art History Pedagogy & Practice
Is a peer-reviewed open access e-journal devoted to scholarship of teaching and learning in art history. It is published by Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR), a peer-populated open educational resource, in partnership with the Office of Library Services of the City University of New York and the Graduate Centre at the City University of New York.
How to Guide for Using Wikipedia in Art History Classes
We’ve developed a new resource for students learning how to edit Wikipedia articles about art history. Thanks to input from art history professors and experienced Wikipedia editors with a specialty in art history, this guide covers what newcomers should know when creating or expanding these articles.
International Journal of Digital Art History
The journal seeks to gather current developments in the field of Digital Art History world-wide and to foster discourse on the subject both from Art History and Information Science. The Digital Age has revolutionized economy, society and our private lives. For decades now, digitalization has also touched most branches of the humanities. With the rising importance of the so called Digital Humanities, Art History is at the brink of new ways of accessing its material and gaining unprecedented insights.
SMARTHISTORY
Smarthistory is the most visited art history resource in the world. They are the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and support AP art history and A-level curriculum. Smarthistory supports students, instructors, and lifelong learners everywhere.
OPEN ARTS OBJECTS
Open Arts Objects (OAO) is an open access platform which provides over 50 free films to support the teaching of Art History.
Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy
The mission of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research.
Art Journal Open (AJO) is an open-access digital journal for the visual arts, which presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other forms of content from across the cultural field. The journal includes a section on Pedagogies.