Using Digital Scholarship Methods and Tools to Enhance and Transform Learning during COVID-19 at a Liberal Arts College

This article describes how the libraries at Lafayette College used digital scholarship methodologies to enhance student engagement and learning during the transition to remote learning due to the COVID-19 crisis. The article argues that digital scholarship tools and methods enhanced active learning during the shift to all-remote instruction by allowing students to engage directly with digital tools for collecting, analysing, organising and presenting information from wherever they were. We discuss how active learning using these tools enabled students to participate more fully in their own learning process and construct their own forms of knowledge and understanding; and provided an effective way to keep students engaged at a time when the unexpected transition to online instruction created a sense of dislocation for many. For institutions returning to in-person instruction these methods can provide enhanced engagement in the traditional classroom setting, and offer increased flexibility for the delivery of future programs.

Title	Using Digital Scholarship Methods and Tools to Enhance and Transform Learning during COVID-19 at a Liberal Arts College
Creator	Perkins, Angela
	Nunes, Charlotte
	Avon, Janna
	Houston, Anne
Publisher	New Review of Academic Librarianship
Academic Department	Libraries
Organization	Lafayette College
Date Issued	2021
Date Available	2022-01-28
Type	Article
Language	English
Keyword	digital humanities
	digital scholarship
	distance learning
	students
Bibliographic Citation	Avon, J., et al. (2021) "Using Digital Scholarship Methods and Tools to Enhance and Transform Learning during COVID-19 at a Liberal Arts College." New Review of Academic Librarianship 27 (3): 301-321.
Standard Identifier	DOI 10.1080/13614533.2021.1983849
Standard Identifier	Handle 10385/4t64gp642
Permalink	http://hdl.handle.net/10385/4t64gp642
Rights Statement	In Copyright
Rights Holders	Taylor & Francis