CL 310 Art History/Classics
Luke Skywalker was recently hired to teach Art History at NYU. In his previous job he used Blackboard to create an online environment but was dissatisfied by it so has decided to participate in NYU's Sakai pilot and has begun setting up his course there.
Luke is teaching a small, cross-listed course. Enrollment is limited to sophomore and junior Art History and Classics majors. The focus of the course is on interpretation of art work in the context of classical civilization.
He is concerned about building a curriculum that blurs the distinction between different types of data. He would like to use his course environment to appeal to different learning styles from haptic learners who like to click the mouse and require lots of hands-on interaction, to visual learners, to more traditional text based learners.
The focus of the course is on interpretation of art work in the context of classical civilization. Luke finds regular textbooks provide too much commentary so he would like to develop his own coursepack using a variety of content modalities?
Pedagogical challenges to address in the online environment:
- Cross-listed course
- Desire to appeal to different learning styles
- Students need to review and evaluate visual and textual data
- Students need to have access to artifacts or images of artifacts
- There are several students with visual disabilities enrolled in the course