NEWS
New e-learning projects
07.02.08
The ELNWS and the Faculty of Arts of Leiden University have agreed to provide funding for a number of specific study fields to stimulate international cooperation projects using ICT tools. The corresponding call for proposals was received with great enthusiasm. It resulted in the selection of seven new projects that will be completed this year (2008).
Project 1: Bridging the gap: teaching long distance by camera
Project manager: Prof. Dr W.H. van Soldt, Languages and Cultures of Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Leiden University)
Partner: University of Münster, Institut für Altorientalische Philologie und Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde
Project manager: Prof. Dr W.H. van Soldt, Languages and Cultures of Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Leiden University)
Partner: University of Münster, Institut für Altorientalische Philologie und Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde
The aim of this project is to extend university lectures virtually by using a real-time audio-visual link. As a result, a lecture given in place A to local students can be transmitted simultaneously to a different group of (foreign) students in place B. Direct interaction and discussion between students and professors will enrich contacts at international level.
Project 2: Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts Photographs Project
Project manager: Dr H.M. Hays, Languages and Cultures of Egypt (Leiden University)
Partner: University of Leuven
Project manager: Dr H.M. Hays, Languages and Cultures of Egypt (Leiden University)
Partner: University of Leuven
This project makes photographs of the Egyptian Coffin Texts – the direct ancestor of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead – digitally accessible for students in Leiden and Leuven. The project will scan the selected photos, upload them to a digital illustration and tag each image with metadata. The information will be available through the digital image database (Digimasia) of the Faculty of Arts of Leiden University.
Project 3: Joint Seminars in Buddhist Studies
Project manager: Prof. Dr J.A. Silk, Languages and Cultures of India and Tibet (Leiden University)
Anticipated partners: Venice, Paris, Hamburg, Cardiff, Oxford
Project manager: Prof. Dr J.A. Silk, Languages and Cultures of India and Tibet (Leiden University)
Anticipated partners: Venice, Paris, Hamburg, Cardiff, Oxford
The goal of this project is to organise real-time-multi-media interaction between Leiden graduate students and students in other institutions. A virtual environment or “video conferencing” will be created for scholarly interaction. Eventually, this should grow into an extensive network that can also be used at other venues - such as conferences - in the “real world”.
Project 4: Digi-epigraphy I: Sanskrit inscriptions in their art historical context
Project manager: Drs G. Theuns-de Boer, Languages and Cultures of India and Tibet (Leiden University)
Partner: Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient, Paris
Project manager: Drs G. Theuns-de Boer, Languages and Cultures of India and Tibet (Leiden University)
Partner: Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient, Paris
This project makes epigraphical photo material and its accompanying metadata available for education and research through the digital image database (Digimasia) of the Faculty of Arts of Leiden University. The original photo material can be found at the Kern Institute in Leiden and is therefore also included in the faculty’s image database.
Project 5: Verba Africana. Interactive Modules
Project manager: Dr D. Merolla, Languages and Cultures of Africa (Leiden University)
Partner: University of Naples, Department of Studies and Researches on Africa and Arab Countries
Project manager: Dr D. Merolla, Languages and Cultures of Africa (Leiden University)
Partner: University of Naples, Department of Studies and Researches on Africa and Arab Countries
With the development of new audio-video materials and interactive modules for e-learning, this project implements the use of DVDs and internet materials for African languages and oral literatures. Video fragments will offer students the opportunity to study communicative and visual aspects of African oral genres.
Project 6: Digitalisation of the Egyptology slide collection: a continuation
Project manager: Prof. Dr Olaf Kaper, Languages and Cultures of Egypt (Leiden University)
Partners: University of Leuven; presumably also Heidelberg and Oxford
Project manager: Prof. Dr Olaf Kaper, Languages and Cultures of Egypt (Leiden University)
Partners: University of Leuven; presumably also Heidelberg and Oxford
The project aims to expand the already digitalised slide collection of the Egyptology section with a further 3500 slides. This will increase the quantitative and qualitative availability of images for students create opportunities for new types of teaching – especially during the MA year –, encourage individual research, and stimulate international cooperation.
Project 7: Sociolinguistics of Spanish in Latin America
Project manager: Dr P. González, Languages and Cultures of Latin America (Leiden University)
Partner: Universidad de Valladolid
Project manager: Dr P. González, Languages and Cultures of Latin America (Leiden University)
Partner: Universidad de Valladolid
The project aims to develop digital teaching material that combines the expertise of both Leiden University and Valladolid. The process includes making attractive digital presentations about sociolinguistic theory and constructing new DVD fragments about social differences in the use of Spanish.