Beyond Books: Open Education Brings Art History to Life
Start Date
6-3-2026 11:10 AM
End Date
6-3-2026 11:40 AM
Description
“ART 478/678: Great Basin Art and Artifacts” was offered at UNLV during fall semester, 2025. Eschewing textbooks, course content was comprised of articles, videos, podcasts, materials from Special Collections & Archives in Lied Library, and lectures by guest experts. The ExplOER Nevada symposium is the idea venue to discuss the advantages of using open pedagogical practices to teach place, bringing its art history to life. Varied voices mirrored student needs. The class learned about and imagined place, absorbed the past and its present iterations, and engaged in digital projects steeped in visual content created through scholarly research. Our panel includes Professor Hikmet Loe (Art History), Alina Lindquist (MFA Candidate, 2028), and Andre Polidoro (BA in Art History and BA in Computer Science, 2025). Loe introduces the course and open pedagogical practices; Lindquist discusses the advantages of open education as a studio artist and a graduate student expanding scholarly content; Polidoro explains how open pedagogy presents undergraduates a way to “connect the dots” as they discover the breadth and value that is brought to education by centering a region through open practices.
Language
English
COinS
Beyond Books: Open Education Brings Art History to Life
“ART 478/678: Great Basin Art and Artifacts” was offered at UNLV during fall semester, 2025. Eschewing textbooks, course content was comprised of articles, videos, podcasts, materials from Special Collections & Archives in Lied Library, and lectures by guest experts. The ExplOER Nevada symposium is the idea venue to discuss the advantages of using open pedagogical practices to teach place, bringing its art history to life. Varied voices mirrored student needs. The class learned about and imagined place, absorbed the past and its present iterations, and engaged in digital projects steeped in visual content created through scholarly research. Our panel includes Professor Hikmet Loe (Art History), Alina Lindquist (MFA Candidate, 2028), and Andre Polidoro (BA in Art History and BA in Computer Science, 2025). Loe introduces the course and open pedagogical practices; Lindquist discusses the advantages of open education as a studio artist and a graduate student expanding scholarly content; Polidoro explains how open pedagogy presents undergraduates a way to “connect the dots” as they discover the breadth and value that is brought to education by centering a region through open practices.
