Spotlight on #dariahTeach: Teaching and Learning across the Digital Arts and Humanities

DARIAH is delighted to publish the latest Spotlight article #dariahTeach is Expanding its Remit: Teaching and Learning across the Digital Arts and Humanities. This article is part of the DARIAH Spotlight campaign, a monthly series that focuses on digital scholarship within the DARIAH network.

Written by Marianne Ping Huang, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture – Comparative Literature, Aarhus University and Monika Barget, Assistant Professor in the History Department, Maastricht University and co-chairs of the #dariahTeach Working Group (WG), this article presents the origins of the #dariahTeach WG, its development since its launch in 2017 and its current plans for expansion.

#dariahTeach has been a DARIAH WG since 2017 with a focus on the #dariahTeach project and platform, which hosts some 30 Open Educational Resources. The guiding principle behind the #dariahTeach platform is to create reusable teaching materials that could easily be integrated into university courses, or could be used by ‘lone learners’, meaning individuals who do not have access to digital humanities expertise. #dariahTeach has since diversified its content beyond the technical to provide courses in areas such as the integration of social justice into digital scholarship and taking a design thinking approach to project design.

The #dariahTeach WG is now expanding its focus beyond the #dariahTeach platform to embrace the wide range of teaching being undertaken by the DARIAH community, from traditional face-to-face teaching, to the development of open educational resources, to workshops, summer schools, and hackathons. The chairs are inviting anyone interested to join them in Rome for the WG meeting organised during the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 to discuss topics such as Research software and coding skills, Accessibility and inclusivity of DH teaching beyond higher education, Artificial intelligence as an opportunity and challenge in DH teaching.