Digital storytelling in higher education: Student voices keep learning human

Discover how collaborating with StoryCollab empowers your institution to improve student engagement and retention through collaborative digital storytelling.

Boost Student Engagement, Retention, and Outcomes

Keeping students engaged in today's digital world is challenging. Participation is declining, and students are outsourcing key learning skills to AI. Yet these skills are essential for creativity, resilience, and human connection. StoryCollab can help you address these challenges by helping you to:

* Integrate first-person digital storytelling to build reflection and critical thinking

* Craft custom curricula that engage students in design-thinking rather than deferring to AI

* Empower students to share their unique stories while building indispensable skills in an AI-driven world

Client Collabs

Nurse Narratives: ETSU College of Nursing, Ballad Health, and the TN Center for Nursing Advancement

A comprehensive initiative designed to cultivate empathy and compassionate healthcare, improve patient experience, recruit and retain nurses, reduce burnout, and build community across a regional health system. The initiative includes a series of digital storytelling workshops for nurses, nursing faculty and students, and patients; a collaborative development and implementation of a Framework for Empathy in Nursing curriculum that integrates the digital stories; community-wide story screenings; listening sessions; and a documentary film. Nurse Narratives Initiative partners: East TN State University, Ballad Health, the ETSU Reseach Corporation, and the TN Center for Nursing Advancement.

Houston Community College: Classroom Digital Storytelling and Podcasting Curriculum

HCC is the second largest community college system in the USA. The school offers affordable education for academic advancement, workforce training, and career development. More than 10 years ago, HCC wanted to support instructors incorporating 21st century literacy skills into their curriculum. They were specifically interested in digital storytelling and podcasting practices for their classrooms. Working with us over the last ten years HCC has effectively tailored workshops to support faculty in adapting the methodology to enhance their courses and assignments.

UC Riverside's Center for Health Disparities Research & Center for Healthy Communities

The Health Disparities Research Center at the University of California, Riverside builds capacity for community-based research across communities. In 2020, professors and graduate students undertook a project of collecting, preserving, and sharing COVID-related health stories. Members of the StoryCollab team helped the UCR research group produce a professional and sustainable public-facing podcast to showcase their early COVID-19 qualitative research data. Project partners: University of California Riverside, School of Medicine's Center for Health Disparities Research & Center for Healthy Communities.

A New Approach to Academic Excellence: Digital not Artificial

Join our free webinar to explore how digital storytelling can be a powerful tool for your school. We'll share real-world case studies demonstrating how leading colleges and universities use digital storytelling and podcasting to deepen student learning and build a stronger academic community.

What You'll Learn:

* Learn how digital storytelling can be a powerful and effective response to challenges like declining student engagement and the use of AI in classrooms.

* Hear directly from department heads at institutions like yours who have successfully partnered with StoryCollab to improve student retention and academic outcomes.

* Discover how StoryCollab works with you to design and implement tailored programs that align with your unique curriculum goals and institutional mission.

Digital storytelling is a powerful and versatile teaching practice. Register for the webinar today to see how you can collaborate with us to empower your students and faculty and elevate your institution's impact.