2022 conference highlights
About:
A collaboration between the University of Toronto Scarborough Library and Center for Teaching and Learning, Brock University, Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, the University of Waterloo, DPI2022 was hosted online.
The 8th iteration of the two-day virtual conference took place on Tuesday August 9th and Wednesday August 10th, 2022, EST. The conference featured keynote addresses, presentations, workshops, and digital tool training in support of undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning.
While broadly focused on Digital Pedagogy, the conference themes included:
- digital pedagogy best practices in STEM, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences;
- digital pedagogy collaborations between faculty, educational developers, librarians, and/or graduate/undergraduate students;
- digital pedagogy collaborations with organizations outside the academy;
- the state of digital pedagogy education in higher education;
- digital pedagogy case studies, including course and assignment innovations;
- innovative new uses for traditional digital pedagogy tools.
Themes
DPI 2022 included four streams:
- Critical Ideologies and Digital Pedagogy: How do we question and challenge dominant beliefs and practices in the field of Digital Pedagogy? What underlying approaches and questions should we engage with more deeply? How can our pedagogical practices help support new educational priorities and social change?
- Digital (de)colonialism: How have digital pedagogy techniques and tools helped instructors and students address anti-racist and decolonization practices in their curriculum and research? What are the challenges and opportunities? Do you have any best practices to share?
- Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Digital Pedagogy: Issues related to inclusivity and accessibility are at the forefront of Digital Pedagogy. What barriers have you encountered in your research and practice? How have you resolved them? What barriers remain? This is an opportunity to reflect on and share frameworks and best practices that have helped to reduce pedagogical barriers and integrate digital pedagogy approaches.
- Sustainability, renewability, and environmental costs in the digital sphere: Digital pedagogy is not immune to environmental critique. There are environmental impacts associated with generating the power and equipment needed to support digital initiatives. How should we reconcile the benefits of digital pedagogy with its environmental costs? Can digital pedagogy proponents be good environmental stewards?
2022 Keynote speakers
Roopika Risam is Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of English and Education at Salem State University. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern UP, 2018) and co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), South Asian Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2020), and Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (Arc Humanities Press, 2019). Risam is co-editor of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a journal that peer reviews digital scholarly outputs; co-founder of Reanimate, an intersectional feminist publishing collective; director of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and Vice President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
Recording of Keynote (Takes you to a different website)
Aimée Morrison (@digiwonk) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, where she teaches and researches the interaction between personal and group identity, cultural formations, and media technologies, particularly through everyday social media practices. She co-hosts the All The Things ADHD podcast with Lee Skallerup Bessette, and was a founding co-editor of the feminist academic blog Hook & Eye. Using a critical disability studies and social justice lens, she has been working to create learning environments and practices that are more equitable, accessible, and sustainable for students and teachers alike.
Recording of Keynote (Takes you to a different site)
