Champions

DH OER Champions

The 2022 DH OER Champions intake included more than 80 participants from 14 South African universities! Read the press release. Contents Contents Introduction Programme aim What constitutes a DH OER?

Digital Champions Initiative

The Educator Track

The Embarker Track

What will you learn? The Embarker track currently offers two programming workshops for complete novices. The interactive workshops are offered online over four 90-minute sessions. The following facilitated courses are available through our Moodle platform:

The Empower Track

The Empower Track

The Empower Track 2021

WHAT To get this track started in 2021, we kicked off during women’s month (August) with a series of talks by women who are involved in tech communities and women who are using various forms of digital and computational skills in their own research and teaching.

The Enabler Track

WHAT This track is currently under development. If you would like to contribute, act as mentor or expert, or point us to useful resources, please get in touch! WHO The Enabler track is focused on the needs of people working in support roles, for example within faculties, the library, eResearch offices, or research support offices.

The Engager Track

The Enhancer Track

WHAT The Enhancer track will give participants an opportunity to hone their digital and computational and open science skills with application to a current or new research project. Participants will have an opportunity to work one-on-one or in small groups with a mentor to learn more advanced techniques, tools, or practices in Digital Humanities or Computational Social Sciences.