The Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (DART) project aimed to explore the potential of digital resources for the teaching of undergraduate anthropology. The project has also been investigating digital-library technologies that will allow for the flexible delivery and customized use of these resources.
Climbing for wild honey in Congo-Brazzaville
Columbia University and the London School of Economics are partners in this international project. At Columbia, DART is a collaboration between the Department of Anthropology|, the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)|, and Academic Information Systems (AcIS)|. At LSE, the Department of Anthropology| and the Centre for Learning Technology| will collaborate on the project. Drawing on the collective skills and existing infrastructures of these institutions and organizations, DART seeks to initiate a meaningful and sustainable transformation of undergraduate education and professional practice in the field of anthropology.
DART is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)| under its Digital Libraries Initiative and by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)| under the Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme|. The project is starting it’s final year of funding, and seeking to disseminate its findings as well as share the resources developed (see below).
With the three other projects in the DLIC Programme, DART was involved in the production of a video which explains the background to the initiative and outlines some of the successes.
DART Resources
The links below provide access to the digital tools that have been developed by DART at LSE and used in anthropology teaching:
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Interviews with Anthropologists
|Between February and July 2008, Clarinda Still conducted interviews with a number of prominent anthropologists. Each interviewee discusses one or more of their most important books.
What's Going On?|
A video-interpretation exercise with accompanying authoring tools that allow the content to be edited. It has been used at LSE to simulate the collection and interpretation of ethnographic data, but can be used in many other contexts.
Betsileo Rice Challenge|
A model to simulate the complex series of decisions made by Madagascan rice farmers and the repercussions of those decisions over time.
Kolkata Explorer|
A tool that simulates an exploration of the city of Kolkata in search of ethnographic data.
Criterion|
A tool to allow the detailed analysis of complex concepts (such as the innateness of human faculties) by small groups of students.
LSE Anthropology Photos|
An archive of fieldworks photographs by LSE's Anthropologists, held by the LSE Library.
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Schoolchildren in Taltala, Calcutta
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Betsileo women harvesting rice
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DART Contacts
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Main contact at LSE
Charles Stafford
Professor of Anthropology
c.stafford@lse.ac.uk|
Tel: +44 20 7955 7214
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Main contact at Columbia
Kate Wittenberg
Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia
kw49@columbia.edu|
Tel: +1 212 854 0167
Fax: +1 212 854 9099
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LSE Team
Charles Stafford
Professor of Anthropology
c.stafford@lse.ac.uk|
Tel: +44 20 7955 7214
LSE Anthropology Department
Fax: +44 20 7955 7603
Steve Ryan
Director, Centre for Learning Technology
s.ryan@lse.ac.uk|
Tel: +44 20 7955 6008
Steve Bond
Learning Technologist, Centre for Learning Technology
s.bond1@lse.ac.uk|
Tel: +44 20 7107 5117
Centre for Learning Technology
Fax: +44 20 7955 6625
Also previously involved in the project:
Caroline Ingram
Project Coordinator
Chris Fuller
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
Henrike Donner
Lecturer in Anthropology
Luke Freeman
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
Jerome Lewis
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
Clarinda Still
LSE Fellow
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Columbia Team
David Millman
Director of Research and Development,
Academic Information Systems
dsm@columbia.edu|
Tel: +1 212 854 4284
Fax: +1 212 662 6442
Colmbia Anthropology Department
Fax: +1 212 854 7347
Also previously involved in the project:
Nicholas Dirks
Vice President for Arts and Sciences and
Professor of Anthropology
nbd7@columbia.edu|
Tel: +1 212 854 8296
Fax: +1 212 854 5401
Gustav Peebles
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
gp2119@columbia.edu|
Tel: +1 212 854 5493
Rashmi Sadana
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
rs2295@columbia.edu|
Tel: +1 212 854 4752
Ann Miller
Project Manager (to 2006)
am310@columbia.edu|
Tel: +1 212 854 1796
Fax: +1 212 854 9099
Gordon Dahlquist
Manager, Research and Development
Academic Information Systems
gd17@columbia.edu|
Tel: +1 212 854 7421
Fax: +1 212 662 6442
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DART is provided to you for your own personal use for teaching and learning purposes. Any copying or distribution of DART materials without permission is prohibited.