Course Awards
2020
Sherer has replaced his previous textbooks in this class, which had a combined total cost of over $200, with affordable learning materials that from the library’s databases: Art Full Text, JStor, Academic Search Complete, Oxford Art Online, Films on Demand, Kanopy as well as freely available content from museum websites and Smarthistory.
More from Sherer:
"While modern and contemporary art will continue to be problematic arenas because of copyright issues, I think faculty will need continuously to be on the alert for new resources. Shari Salisbury, our research librarian specialist in art and art history is laudably scrupulous with introducing faculty to new digital and print resources. I also recommend faculty pay attention to social media within the discipline as new critical ideas, pedagogical approaches, and references to new resources sometimes are quite generously shared. I think open educational resources in Art History will continually become more useful as the larger museums revise and develop new programs for making their physical collections accessible in digital formats.
I am aware that education costs are high and are often quite burdensome for our students. Open educational resources truly help reduce financial costs and provide students with greater access to materials and flexibility in their studies. I often reflect upon my own personal difficulties in financing my own education; hence, I am sympathetic to the needs of my current students. I do try to share resources I find and use with my peers in the studio disciplines and with new non-tenure track faculty in art history. I think energy for new approaches helps move efforts in so many aspects of our lives into new directions."