Digital Bridges at CCNMTL
CCNMTL's Digital Bridges Initiative works in partnership with Columbia faculty and librarians to bring students into active engagement with digital collections. Digital Bridges learning environments promote hands-on use of materials from Columbia University Libraries, other academic collections, broadcast media, scientific data repositories, museums, and private collections. Read more...

In many ways, the digital landscape offers instructors and students an embarrassment of riches. Columbia University Libraries now spends more of its acquisition budget on electronic databases and journals than on books; the open web teems with information and...

Scholars who have actively benefited from access to special collections in their own research are looking for practical ways to involve their students in the authenticity and excitement of analyzing primary source materials. The Black Radical Archive facilitated just such...

For Professor Kenneth Jackson, learning about New York City's history means getting out into it. In his legendary History of the City of New York class – one of the largest in the College – he leads hundreds of Columbia...
A four-day conference hosted by Columbia to commemorate the eminent historian Manning Marable will include a presentation of innovative digital projects developed by Marable and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. A presentation on Marable's work...
The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is pleased to announce a new seminar series to provide faculty with ideas and best practices for using new technology in their courses. This spring, the series features five weekly...
CCNMTL has released an updated version of Mediathread, the Center’s innovative, open-source platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of multimedia content. Improvements in this release include: Direct video uploading: Columbia University students, instructors, and staff can now upload video to...
"Digital Bridges allows us to utilize primary source materials available at Columbia, such as correspondence, original manuscripts, excerpts from oral history interviews, and photographs to bring Harlem's heritage to life. Instead of studying the collective experiences of a community from...more.
- Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History
"CCNMTL's Digital Bridges initiative has not only been extraordinarily helpful in my undergraduate teaching, but I have been able to re-conceptualize my approach to bringing ideas to life. Much of my research has been rooted in urban poor communities where...more.
- Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology
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