An article by doctoral student Alyssa P. Lyons on the #syllabus phenomenon and the reasons these digital projects and shared resources are so important to our teaching in this increasingly digital age.
From the preface: "The hashtag syllabus is a crowd-sourced body of work that can, in some cases, challenge the knowledge construction of the academy. Hashtag syllabi have the opportunity to reshape how knowledge is produced, whose knowledge is affirmed, and what knowledge people are exposed to."