Blog Tag: Faculty

Educator Carson Smith shares a student research project that uses JSTOR and Workspace to help learners slow down, analyze art deeply, and build visual literacy skills.

This year’s American Library Association (ALA) Conference in Philadelphia offered an opportunity to share how JSTOR is addressing two interconnected needs: helping researchers navigate trusted content more intuitively, and helping libraries manage, preserve, and activate distinctive collections at scale.

How do we hope to meet the challenges of the future? This blog post details some of the inroads we’re making in charting the path ahead, including through digital collection stewardship, faculty engagement, open scholarship initiatives, and editorial excellence.

What would your classroom look like if students engaged with knowledge as detectives rather than passive readers? The answers lie in digital primary sources. And education depends on how we use them.

At SXSW EDU 2025, educators gathered to discuss the promises and pitfalls of AI in the classroom. This post reflects on the evolving role of humanities instructors, advocating for AI as a collaborative tool to support metacognition, process-based learning, and critical engagement.

Help students navigate academic articles with confidence. Richard Joseph shares classroom-tested strategies, from highlighting and annotating to summarizing complex scholarly texts.

Let’s take a time machine—right at your fingertips—with digital primary sources. Developing digital literacy and primary source analysis skills is essential in higher education, equipping learners not only for academia but also for careers in research, journalism, policy, and beyond.

Primary sources offer direct, unfiltered access to the voices, images, and documents that shape our understanding of the world and its history. And yet, despite their value, primary source literacy remains an ongoing challenge in higher education.

How can artificial intelligence enhance humanities research and teaching while preserving the discipline’s rich traditions and interpretive depth? This question guided a dynamic session at the 2025 Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference—a gathering of thousands of educators, students, and scholars passionate about language, literature, and culture.

Accessible knowledge opens the door to education. In 2025, explore JSTOR’s open access collections, featuring art, photographs, and cultural archives that empower visual literacy and interdisciplinary discovery.