Background

The Rice University Teaching Archive was established by Josh Eyler, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). It is a digital collection of syllabi, assignments and other pedagogical materials created by Rice faculty.  It is anticipated that such a collection would provide resources that could be adapted by other instructors in their own teaching, document the university’s excellence in education, and be useful to researchers studying the history of higher education or the scholarship of teaching and learning (it would also be a kick for alumni). Initially starting with a pilot materials focused on several award-winning teachers at Rice such as John Hutchinson and Dennis Huston.

Community Home page: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/88946

This digital archive is organized into separate collections per Rice Faculty.

Deposit Guidelines

Document Types

Source documents may include Microsoft Word, Powerpoint or PDFs formats as well as video snippets. Faculty must be author of paper to be included in online archive and hold copyright to deposit materials into RDSA.

Preparing digital files

1. Convert all files to PDF format

2. Regularize filenames

1. Replace any blank spaces with dashes

2. Remove any special characters :  % $ & ! ( ) * . @

3. Confirm filename matches title

4. Length of filename should not be longer than 32 characters

Examples

• for Syllabi, follow syntax: Course ID dash syllabus dash year dash term.

3. Embed metadata to PDF file

1. Add title, author and source info as shown below

Metadata

For descriptive metadata, use best practices by document type. For example,

• Journal articles see Faculty Publications Metadata Guidelines
• Video formats see Recommended descriptive practices for Video and Audio content

Also provide supplemental metadata for open educational resources, see Metadata for Open Educational Resources