Open Educational Resource 2017 Textbook List

This is an updated, discipline specific OER textbook list for departments at Sacred Heart University, compiled by Zach Claybaugh and Chelsea Stone

The OER Project @SHU: 5 Factors Driving Institutional Change

Sacred Heart University’s OER initiative has seen positive results in its first stage of planning and implementation. Five factors have been driving change – tactical planning, collaborative networking, awareness building, impact measurement, and pedagogy focus. Using evidence-based examples, we share strategies for cost-savings, increased access, and enhanced pedagogical practices

Open Educational Resources Textbook List

Discipline specific OER textbook list for departments at SHU, compiled by Zach Claybaugh and Chelsea Stone

OER Awareness, Advocacy, and Adoption: An Institutional Approach

Sacred Heart University’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Task Force, an entity composed of the Office of the Provost, the Office of Digital Learning (ODL), Sacred Heart University Library, and faculty from across campus, has worked for the past two years to integrate OER into the educational culture of the university. To accomplish this we’ve employed a process that focuses on building awareness, identifying campus units for building strategic partnerships, assisting faculty in locating relevant resources, and, through pilot programs, onboarding OER into courses for trial

A History of Yugoslavia (Book Review)

Book review by Zachariah Claybaugh. Calic, M. J. (2019). A history of Yugoslavia (D. G. Purdue, Trans.). West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557538383 (print), 9781612495644 (ebook

A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe: Print and Electronic Sources

The study of Southeastern Europe continues to be a popular area of inquiry for researchers. A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe: Print and Electronic Sources is designed to aid those interested in exploring this dynamic region in locating the best resources available, whether looking for archival collections in Albania or dissertations and theses in Greece. It provides readers up-to-date information on a variety of research collections from over twenty countries and in over a dozen languages. The focus of the volume is on the modern era, primarily the 18th century to the present, the subject areas of the humanities and social sciences, though researchers from outside of the subject and temporal scope of the work will find information of use, and the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova (including the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic), Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey. This volume is distinctive in that it is the only bibliographic resource that offers such extensive subject, linguistic, and regional treatment. This work is composed of five chapters and three appendices. The chapters are focused on research materials, giving readers access points for critical materials on Southeastern Europe both in print and digital formats from libraries, archives, journals, and databases. The appendices focus on library classification, educational programming geared to language instruction, and transliteration of non-Latin scripts

The History of Croatia and Slovenia (Book Review)

Book review by Zachariah Claybaugh. Deliso, C. (2020). The history of Croatia and Slovenia. Greenwood.\ ISBN 9781440873225 cloth; ISBN 9781440873232 ebook

The 1981 Kosovar uprising: nation and facework

The following work is an examination of the 1981 Uprising in Kosovo, a watershed moment in the history of Yugoslavia. The story of this event will be detailed in the following pages through a narrative history of the uprising and the incidents that surrounded it. Along with the historical description, the uprising will be analyzed within the framework of Rogers Brubaker’s theory on nation as form, category, and event and through his triadic relational nexus. Using this view of the nation as a shell within which the discourse of the events took place, articles from Albania’s Zëri i popullit and Yugoslavia’s Borba will be analyzed using Ruth Wodak’s negative out-group qualities from her discourse-historical approach and Tae-Sop Lim’s and John Bower’s analytical framework for facework. Through these methods, a more robust and variegated understanding of the 1981 Kosovar Uprising, its place in the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the growing destabilization of the region in the 1990s can be reached

Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan, New Ed. (Book Review)

Book review by Zachariah Claybaugh. Gasimov, Z.. (2018). Historical dictionary of Azerbaijan. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538110416, 978153811042

Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 (Book Review)

Book review by Zachariah Claybaugh: Campbell, I.W. (2017). Knowledge and the ends of empire: Kazak intermediaries and Russian rule on the steppe, 1731-1917. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 9781501700798, 978150170789