Digital Teaching Units

Gender in History and Culture

 

Warrior Women, DTU by Dianne Dugaw
Warrior Women, DTU by English Professor Dianne Dugaw

Our first efforts began in 1997 with the launching of what we called the Digital Teaching Units: Gender in History and Culture (DTU)  project. Funded by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, this project engaged over a dozen University of Oregon faculty and two local area high school teachers in developing web-based digital resources they could use to insert enlivened presentations of their own research in their teaching.

The goals of this project were two-fold: to bring current research on women and gender into the classroom by way of the web and other digital resources and to create a supportive team environment to encourage faculty, particularly senior faculty who were often quite resistant, to learn and apply new technologies to their research and teaching.

Our DTU collection currently consists of 29 units for classroom use, whether for supporting a single lecture or an entire course or seminar. These units have been reaching thousands of University of Oregon students since 1999. Please write swood at uoregon.edu for the passwords to the DTUs.