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Case
Study: Ohio State University Learn more
about this project: The Ohio State University (OSU) is a public research university in the United States. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the largest single-campus university in the country. Ohio State is currently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best public university in Ohio, among the top 60 universities in the United States, and among the top 20 public universities in the United States. Ohio State has been officially designated as the flagship institution of the state's public system of higher education by the newly centralized University System of Ohio. In 2005, two members of the University Library System at Ohio State, Karen Diaz and Anne Fields, attended the Center’s Standard Workshop in Berkeley, California and created a story about the University Library. Upon their return to Ohio, they engaged the newly formed Digital Union, a project connected to the Library System, in a project to integrate digital storytelling into the library system’s information technology and curriculum support services. A year later, the Center was invited to Ohio State to lead a workshop for a group of faculty and staff. This session led to the formation of an Ohio State University Digital Storytelling Leadership Team, comprised of members drawn from several parts of the University. The Leadership Team has been very active in developing approaches to the academic use of digital storytelling methods. Several leading faculty members have become active proponents of the form in their lectures, presentations, and promotion of classes. This strong faculty engagement has in turn led to the active use of digital storytelling as a curriculum component for students, across multiple disciplines. In 2008, Fields and Diaz authored Fostering Community Through Digital Storytelling: A Guide For Academic Libraries, the first book on extensive university-level applications of digital storytelling. The Center’s relationship with Ohio State offers an excellent portrait of how two pioneering academics can infuse digital storytelling practices throughout a leading institution of higher education. Whether as a method for faculty to present their ideas or a form through which students can reflect on what they’re learning, digital storytelling’s excellence as a pedagogical method has been firmly established. |
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