The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group (#DLFteach) seeks proposal for an upcoming #DLFteach Toolkit focused on digital pedagogy in music and sound studies. From the call for proposals:
We welcome contributions from faculty, instructors, librarians, archivists, technologists, and community educators across musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, composition, performance, sound art, podcasting, and related areas.
While digital pedagogy has gained traction across disciplines like literature, history, and art history, there remain relatively few practical resources tailored to music and sound.1 Building on prior Toolkit volumes, this collection seeks to fill that disciplinary gap by gathering concrete, classroom-ready approaches for teaching with digital methods in music and sound studies, particularly for those new to digital humanities and digital pedagogy. It will offer accessible strategies and resources for introducing digital methods and tools to students, focusing on developing key competencies and literacies that are grounded in best practices and research. Additionally, it will provide models for activities and assignments that build the skills necessary for students to engage in digital humanities research and scholarship.
What we’re seeking
Classroom-tested lessons and activities with clear outcomes, concrete steps, data/tooling notes, assessment ideas, and accessibility considerations. Open-source technologies are preferred. Topic suggestions include:
- Assignment design and scaffolding
- Integrating digital work into music courses
- Encoding and structured data (MEI, MusicXML)
- Audio, score, and corpus analysis with visualization
- Data and metadata (creation, curation, description)
- Minimal computing
- AI and machine learning in teaching
- Ethics, rights, and accessibility
- Community and public-facing work, including decolonizing practices
How to propose
Submit a 250-300-word proposal that states your audience/context, estimated time, learning outcomes (2-4), activity overview, methods/tools/data, assessment approach, and accessibility/UDL considerations. Also include any software or hardware that will be required to implement or support the lesson. Indicate any collaborators. Authors of accepted proposals will draft full lessons (1,200–1,800 words) following the Toolkit template. All lesson content will be published open access under CC BY 4.0. See examples of past #DLFteach Toolkits lessons throughout our first four volumes.Review & selection
Proposals will be peer-reviewed for clarity, feasibility, accessibility, reusability, and contribution to a diverse set of repertoires and contexts. You may opt in to serve as a reviewer (COI policy applies).Timeline
- Proposals due: December 5, 2025 (11:59 pm Eastern)
- Notifications: January 23, 2026
- Full lessons due: May 15, 2026
- Review/revisions: Summer 2026
- Final lessons due: September 30, 2026
- Publication: ~January 2027
Make sure to review their Code of Conduct before completing the submission form.
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