Innovations of history education: development of a digital application for work with sources

Implementation: 2015–2017

Head of project: Kamil Činátl

Other members of the project team: Jaroslav Najbert, Kamil Činátl, Vojtěch Ripka, Čeněk Pýcha, Karina Hoření, Václav Sixta, Matěj Spurný, Terezie Vávrová, Michal Frankl, Andrea Průchová

Description of project: The project TD03000063 Innovations of History Education: Development of a Digital Application for Work with Sources was supported by a Technology Agency of the Czech Republic grant. The following institutions worked on the project: the Czech Technical University; Fraus, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University; the Faculty of Education, Charles University; the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences; the Jewish Museum in Prague. In the autumn of 2016, tests were carried out, the results of which were evaluated and incorporated into the new versions of exercises for work with historical photography. In June and September 2017, a second smaller wave of testing took place, which confirmed the proposed modifications. At the same time, the project teams developed a new type of textual analysis exercise. Two prototypes became part of tests in June and September.

The cooperation between the participating institutions will continue also after the project will end in December 2017.