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Session Description
Session Description
In this panel discussion, faculty from History, the Digital Humanities, and the Labor Center share their experiences with integrating collaborative research projects into their undergraduate courses, while highlighting the advantages and feasibility of student-driven, public-facing scholarship. These projects ask students to employ digital methods to visualize and disseminate data as a means for achieving their goals, from influencing public policy to fighting for social justice. Panelists also share how they scaffold and assess this type of work, as well as how they manage group dynamics. The panel was held on November 3, 2021 and was co-sponsored by UCLA's Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
PANELISTS:
Tawny Paul (Director, Public History Initiative, History)
Janna Shadduck-Hernández (Project Director, UCLA Labor Center)
Ashley Sanders (Vice-Chair & Core Faculty, Digital Humanities Program)
Links Shared by Panelists
Links Shared by Panelists
Project Examples by Panelists
Project Examples by Panelists
"Living Through the Plague": Plotting an eyewitness account of the Great Plague in London
Resources Used for Developing Projects
Resources Used for Developing Projects
Knight Lab (story-mapping, timelines, etc.)
Sample Syllabi under "Courses": https://ashleyrsanders.com
Managing Groups Resources
Managing Groups Resources
Working Styles Quiz (PDF) and Canvas Commons (adapted from David Merrill and Peter Urs Bender)
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Schedule a Consultation to Discuss Your Course
Schedule a Consultation to Discuss Your Course
Center for the Advancement of Teaching: consult@teaching.ucla.edu
Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: urhass@college.ucla.edu
Check out CAT's Learn@Lunch program for a more informal discussion.
Scaffolding the Research Process
Scaffolding the Research Process
The UCLA Library's Writing Instruction and Research Education initiative (WI+RE) offers a wide range of tools to help scaffold the research and writing process for students. Check out this workshop recording and website walk-through video for tips about incorporating WI+RE tools into your courses.
Managing and Assessing Group Projects
Managing and Assessing Group Projects
This website from Carnegie Mellon offers great sample rubrics for all sorts of projects, and this page of their site focuses specifically on strategies for managing and assessing group projects--including sample work plans, peer and self evaluation tools, and more.
Showcasing Your Students' Work
Showcasing Your Students' Work
Further Reading
Further Reading
The Association of American Colleges & Universities identifies course-based research and project-based learning as high-impact teaching practices. These pedagogies have been widely studied and shown to benefit college students at all levels and from a wide range of backgrounds. We invite you to explore some of the resource hubs and research studies that document the benefits of research and project-based learning below.
Council on Undergraduate Research Mentor Resources -- includes an assessment toolkit, a bibliography on best practices for course-based research, and more!
Peer Review special issue on undergraduate research (across disciplines)
The Craft of Research (an accessible guide for both instructors and students)
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