Should student-facultyscholarship embrace

digital publishing?

Jack DoughertyAssociate Professor of Educational Studies

Cities, Suburbs, and Schools ProjectTrinity College, Hartford CT

Collaborative Research Workshop, Swarthmore College, April 2011

Amherst workshop: ways to collaborate with our students in the research process

1) Dream up connections between your teaching opportunities and research interests

2) Define a common vocabulary for “research”

3) Scaffold student learning from coursework to team-based and independent research projects

4) Cultivate a critical mass of student researcherswith opportunities to play recurring roles

Naralys Estevez

Introductory course (25 students)

Cities, Suburbs & Schools seminar (14)

Summer research assistant (3)

Senior thesis and scholarly conference (solo)

TA for seminar research project (for 14)

5) Become a learner with students by crossing disciplinary boundaries and acquiring new skills

6) Work with digital tools designed for collaboration

7) Sniff around for sources of student funding

8) Clarify how collaboration does (and does not)occur with your students, and identify your roles

Statement on collaboration:This chapter represents a collaborative effort by faculty and student co-authors at Trinity College. Jack Dougherty, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, coordinated the website design, research methods, data collection, and wrote the final draft. Diane Zannoni, Professor of Economics, advised on the research design and supervised the quantitative analysis. Begaeta Nukic trained and organized student researchers, Courteney Coyne transcribed and coded parent interviews, and Maham Chowhan, Benjamin Dawson, and Tehani Guruge conducted the quantitative analysis. The authors thank Jean-Pierre Haeberly and David Tatem (who created the SmartChoices web application and provided GIS support), and Jesse Wanzer and Nick Bacon (who digitized school attendance boundaries). . .

School Information, Parental Decisions, and

the Digital Divide

9) Reflect on your motivations:Why am I doing this (and is it driving me crazy)?

9B) Listen to your student collaborators: Why are they doing this (and putting up with you)?

10) Share collaborative work widely on the web,for dissemination, feedback, and future recruitment

Amherst workshop: ways to collaborate with our students in the research process

Today’s workshop: ways to engage with our students to broaden scholarly communication

Problems with conventional academic publishing:

-Student writing does not always fit journal format

-Review process too slow for undergraduate calendar

- Once published, usually locked behind pay wall

Initial attempts to expand scholarship online:

- Post collaborative research on faculty website

Initial attempts to expand scholarship online:

- Upload student-faculty research to library site

Initial attempts to expand scholarship online:

- Discuss student-faculty research on blogs

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

Long Civil Rights Movement, UNC Press https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/voice/works/

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Media Commons Press http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

http://WritingHistory.trincoll.edu (for 2011 and archived 2010 editions)

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

http://OnTheLine.trincoll.edu

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

http://anthologize.org

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

How can we partner with publishers and libraries that are thinking in similar ways with open access?

http://press.umich.edu/ and http://www.digitalculture.org/

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

How can we partner with publishers and libraries that are thinking in similar ways with open access?

http://press.umich.edu/ and http://www.digitalculture.org/

“commissioned a task force last fall to investigate the possibility of jointly founding a ‘liberal-arts press,’ a serious, scholarly press committed to rigorous peer review, superb editing, and the free dissemination of publications.” Bryn Geffert, Chronicle Review

Can we reshape web tools to create richer and longer-lasting forms of scholarly communication?

How can we partner with publishers and libraries that are thinking in similar ways with open access?

What if my students could freely read & write comments on scholarship created by your students? A more meaningful form of peer review?