Foothill Community College Fellows Collaborate with Lacuna Stories

Stanford's Lacuna Stories is a dynamic education research project at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA).  Their web-based platform  helps create a “flipped classroom” that encourages greater interaction between faculty and students, and more effective reading, thinking, and discussion through engagement with digital course materials, annotation tools, and discussion platforms.

Four  faculty members from the English Department at Foothill Community College participating in the EPIC (Education Partnership to Internationalize Curriculum) Fellowship program are using their fellowship year to collaborate with Lacuna Stories in creating new curricular units for their courses.  "Fellows will learn new approaches to social and collaborative learning through digital annotation, shared writing, and other affordances we've built into Lacuna Stories," said Brian Johnsrud, Co-Director of the Poetic Media Lab and the original designer Lacuna Stories. "We will explore different ways of thinking about how digital tools can enrich diverse learning communities that are constructed inside, and outside, of the classroom."

EPIC Fellows meet at Stanford during the course of the year and their projects will be showcased to the broader community at a symposium that will be held in spring of 2016.  This program is supported by the U.S. Department of Education with Title VI funding.