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The Studio for Digital Innovation will give students and scholars who are increasingly interested in digital work a tangible presence on campus in an accessible location: a hub where anyone on campus can access resources, host workshops, hold conversations, connect with like-minded colleagues, discover new technologies, learn how to implement those technologies, consider new approaches to AI, develop assessment plans for multimodal assignments, and become more innovative teachers. Ultimately the Studio will enable faculty and staff to help students create not just assignments for assessment but projects that do work in and for our twenty-first century world, improving student engagement with course objectives and creating possibilities for new forms of engaged or experiential learning and community engagement.

The Studio supports faculty, staff, and students who want to use technology for teaching and learning.

The Studio provides: 

  • Space for student, faculty, and community collaboration on digital projects
  • Access to relevant tools for student, faculty, and community collaboration on digital projects
  • Opportunities for students who want to develop digital skills or create digital portfolios 
  • Alternative assignments for students with a diverse range of learning styles 
  • An online repository of resources for faculty development
  • An expanded Community of Interest and an annual Digital Pedagogy Institute 
  • Space for additional workshops, training opportunities, consultations, and community events
  • Support for the creation of public projects and new strategic partnerships 
  • Soundproofed studio space for high-quality audio recording necessary for public projects
  • Centralized collection, storage, and circulation of equipment for digital pedagogy
  • A path to making Wake Forest a leader in both digital pedagogy and experiential learning 

Faculty Objectives

  • Discover and gain access to digital tools and technologies for our classrooms 
  • Become comfortable enough with those tools and technologies to deploy them
  • Access resources for best practices for digital projects and collaborations 
  • Learn more about best practices for assessing digital learning   
  • Find colleagues with similar goals, projects, or pedagogical practices 
  • Build relevant networks on and beyond campus, across offices and community partnerships 
  • Develop awareness about the ethical questions raised by critical digital pedagogy
  • Transform classroom assignments and student experiences 

Student Objectives

  • Develop digital literacy skills that help students communicate more effectively in the world beyond our campus
  • Develop specific skills in media literacy, online publishing, audio editing, video editing, website creation, mapping, and social media management. 
  • Gain awareness of digital literacy issues like accessibility, copyright, and the ethical questions that arise when we turn to digital publishing
  • Create digital portfolios to showcase skills that are currently underrepresented in our curriculum, which might help them stand out with employers. 
  • Transform from passive consumers to active producers of media content