Kelly Schrum

Associate Professor

scholarship of teaching and learning, online learning, digital humanities

Kelly Schrum is an associate professor in the Higher Education Program (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University). Her research and teaching focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning and on teaching and learning in the digital age, including online learning, scholarly digital storytelling, and digital humanities. She is the associate editor for Teaching and Learning Inquiry, the journal for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Schrum has directed more than 60 digital humanities education projects with funding from federal and state agencies, foundations, and school districts. Recent examples include the Amboyna Conspiracy Trial, winner of the NSW Premiers History Award, Eagle Eye Citizen (Library of Congress), Teaching History (U.S. Department of Education), Diplomacy in Action: Diplomatic Simulations in the Classroom (U.S. Department of State), and Teaching Hidden History, a graduate, hybrid digital history and history education course.

Schrum has published widely, including recent articles on scholarly digital storytelling and teaching historical thinking in hybrid and online settings, and presents her work nationally and internationally. Schrum received her B.A. in history and anthropology from U.C. Berkeley and her Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University.

Current Research

Scholarly digital storytelling

Teaching and learning in the online digital public humanities certificate program

Inquiry-based learning in hybrid and online classrooms

Selected Publications

Swan, A., *Sleeter, N., & Schrum, K. (forthcoming). Teaching hidden history: A case study of dialogic scaffolding in a hybrid graduate course. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Schrum, K., *Sleeter, N., *Tường Vy Sharpe, C., & Pellegrino, A. (2018). Teaching hidden history: Student outcomes from a distributed, collaborative, hybrid history course. The History Teacher, 51(4).

Schrum, K., Kortecamp, K., Rosenfeld, J., Briscoe, K., & Steeves, K. (2016). Assessing the effect of historic site-based professional development on history teaching and learning. The History Teacher, 50(1), 33-53.

Expanded Publication List

Books

Schrum, K., Gevinson, A., & Rosenzweig, R. (Eds.) (2004, 2008 2^nd ed.). History matters: A student guide to U.S. history online. New York, NY, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

Lehner, K., Schrum, K., & Kelly, T. M. (Eds.) (2008) World history matters: A student guide to history online. New York, NY, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

Schrum, K. (2004, 2006). Some wore bobby sox: The emergence of teenage girls’ culture, 1920-1950. New York, NY, Palgrave-Macmillan.

Book Chapters

Schrum, K., Sleeter, N., & Tường Vy Sharpe, C. (2014, 2015). How we learned to drop the quiz: Writing in online asynchronous courses. In J. Dougherty & T. O’Donnell (Eds.). WebWriting: Why and how for liberal arts teaching and learning. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press/Trinity College ePress.

Schrum, K. (2012). A tale of two goldfish bowls . . . Or what’s right with digital storytelling. In D. Cohen & T. Scheinfeldt (Eds.). Hacking the academy: A book crowdsourced in one week. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press.

Schrum, K., Scheinfeldt, T., Leon, S., Brennan, S., & Halabuk, J. (2010, 2012). Oral history in the digital age. In D. Ritchie (Ed.). The [Oxford] handbook of oral history (pp. 499 – 516). New York, NY, Oxford University Press.

Schrum, K. (2010). Oh the bliss: Teenage girls and fashion. In M. Forman Brunell & L. Paris (Eds.). The girls’ history & culture reader. (pp. 135-159). Champaign, IL, University of Illinois Press.

Articles

“The Power of Historical Site Visits to Transform History Teaching and Learning” What are History Teachers Learning at Historic Sites (American Educational Research Association Report, 2014). Co-authored with Karen Kortecamp, Jennifer Rosenfeld, Kevin Briscoe, and Kathleen Steeves.

Beyond Flipping Classrooms Inside Higher Ed: Higher Ed Beta. June 30, 2014. Co-authored with Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe and Nate Sleeter.

Take a Walk on the Historical Side U.S. Department of Education Office of Innovation and Improvement Blog. May 8, 2012. Co-authored with Jennifer Rosenfeld.

"Stamps, Sarcophagi, and Songs: Teaching World History with Online Resources.” Social Education. January/February 2012. 76(1).

Grants and Fellowships

RECENT

Principal Investigator. (2018-2021). World history commons. Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. National Endowment for the Humanities.

Principal Investigator. (2018). Pilbara strike. Monash University (Australia).

Principal Investigator. (2018). For us the living: Learning from the stories of the Alexandria National Cemetery. National Cemetery Administration.

Principal Investigator. (2018). ReSounding the archives. 4VA Collaborative.

Principal Investigator. (2017-2018). Harpers Ferry national historical park: Cataloging Storer College oral histories and web feature. National Park Service, Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.

Principal Investigator. (2017-2018). ABMC education. American Battle Monuments Commission.

Principal Investigator. (2017-2018). Silent heroes. National History Day.

Principal Investigator. (2015-2018). Eagle eye citizen. Library of Congress.

Principal Investigator. (2016-2017). Diplomacy in action: Diplomatic simulations in the classroom. U.S. Department of State.

Principal Investigator. (2016-2017). Through the doors of Stratford: Online learning modules. Arlington Public Schools.

Principal Investigator. (2015 –2017). War dead database. American Battle Monuments Commission.

Principal Investigator. (2015-2017). A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. Folger Shakespeare Library & National Endowment for the Humanities.

Courses Taught

HE 621: Higher education in the United States
HE 703: Higher education in the digital age
HE 704: Scholarship of teaching and learning
HE 792/HIST 688: Scholarly digital storytelling
HIST 523: Hidden in plain sight
HIST 523: Virginia studies
HIST 688: Teaching Hidden History
HIST 689: Teaching and learning history in the digital age
HIST 695: Teaching with primary sources (Library of Congress)

Education

M.A., Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University.

B.A., History and Anthropology, UC Berkeley.

Recent Presentations

Schrum, K. (2018, March). Scholarly digital storytelling: Teaching and learning in the digital age. Tangney Lecture presented at Bates College, Lewiston, ME.

Schrum, K., Swan, A. Sleeter, N., Barr, S., & Tinkelman, I. (2018, January). Teaching hidden history: Learning by developing digital modules. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.

Schrum, K., & Swan, A. (2017, October). Using digital spaces to scaffold inquiry-based learning across disciplines. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Calgary, Canada.

Schrum, K. (2017, May). Scholarly digital storytelling: New approaches to teaching and learning history. Keynote presented at the annual Teaching History in the 21st Century Conference, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Schrum, K. (2016, May). Digital storytelling in the higher education classroom. Digital humanities faculty workshop. Maynooth University and Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.