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| To aid succession planning for Pro-Vice-Chancellors, through involvement in 3 modules over the course of an academic year across the 1994 group of universities | |
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By the end of the course participants should:-
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Keynotes from national 'experts'
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Interviewing a research scientist
http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/ya/courses/coursesam.html
"In small groups, you will be asked to interview a member of the scientific community and to devise a way in which to represent their work in a publicly accessible manner. This might, for example, involve the production of a piece of original writing or a poster display and should be suitable for presentation to a lay audience."
NEW!!
In science the links are threatened - editorial
http://www.the-funneled-web.com/Old_Editorials/ed-28_01_03.ht
AVCC: Positioning Australia's Universities for 2020
http://www.avcc.edu.au/policies_activities/education_review/CampusReview_FINAL.pdf
"Each university must be able to provide a quality learning environment for students, linking teaching to relevant research and scholarship. The present system, where over-enrolment is almost the main source of additional funding for undergraduate teaching, is one that clearly militates against quality.
http://www.avcc.edu.au/policies_activities/education_review/CampusReview_FINAL.pdf
Report outlining national policies for Australian universities "Each university must be able to provide a quality learning environment for students, linking teaching to relevant research and scholarship. The present system, where over- enrolment is almost the main source of additional funding for undergraduate teaching, is one that clearly militates against quality.
Higher Education at the Crossroads (2002)
http://www.detya.gov.au/crossroads/
"The Government is undertaking a comprehensive review of Australian higher education. The purpose of the review is to ensure that Australia's higher education institutions are best placed to contribute to the nation's future." Issues of teaching /research relations are embedded in this review -if not always explicit!
NEW!! Higher Education Review Process - Striving for Quality: Learning, Teaching and Scholarship
http://www.backingaustraliasfuture.gov.au/publications/striving_for_quality/
and see in particular this section
http://www.backingaustraliasfuture.gov.au/publications/striving_for_quality/pdf/6c.pdf
Strengthening the Nexus between Teaching and Research
http://www.detya.gov.au/highered/eippubs/eip01_2/default.htm
Report produced by the Australian DETYA (Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs) on "Strengthening the Nexus between Teaching and Research - This investigation has moved the debate on the teaching/research nexus from the restrictive question: ‘Is there a nexus?’ to a systematic examination of the nexus as it actually operates in three very different universities—The University of Ballarat, The University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology".
NEW!! Science Deans say Scholarship is not enough
http://www.backingaustraliasfuture.gov.au/submissions/issues_sub/pdf/i151.pdf
The Council strongly argues that the teaching-research nexus must be maintained for science faculties. Active researchers are informed about not only current knowledge, but also are aware of the future directions and growth of knowledge.
Adelaide
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/DVCE/policy/LT_plan.html
Research and Learning Institutional teaching strategy featuring the link.
Canberra
Australian National University Canberra - Defining Undergraduate Learning at the ANU
http://www.anu.edu.au/CEDAM/ilearn/
Defining undergraduate learning at the ANU draws on the Boyer report to identify a distinctive undergraduate program for the ANU that capitalises on its strengths as a research university. The Defining Undergraduate Learning proposal identified four strategic programs to create a systematic approach that ensures ALL undergraduate students will be introduced to inquiry learning and experience the rich learning environment and resources of the Faculties, IAS, ITA and national institutions from their first year.
http://www.anu.edu.au/CEDAM/ilearn/ABoyerreportUCoTL28501.pdf (dead link 10.11.03)
In 2001, the ANU's Adapting Boyer Working Group reported on a proposal to implement inquiry-based learning in all undergraduate programs and to enhance teaching-research linkages
Monash
Implementation at Monash
http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/dvcap/ltp/implementation.html
Learning and Teaching Plan 2003-2005
OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES and ACTIONS
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CHEQ will produce a discussion paper for Academic Board on the teaching/research nexus. | CHEQ by December 2002. |
| CHEQ will undertake a benchmarking project to analyse methods of implementing the teaching/research nexus. | CHEQ by December 2003 | |
| Faculties will appoint working groups to produce a report on how Monash will achieve a nexus between teaching and research in their courses. | Faculties will produce a report with advice and support from CeLTS and CHEQ. By January 2004. |
See also see:
Institutional progress at Monash
Committee reports and policy documents re institutional policies to progress the links
http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/unisec/com/ec/eca/ecadoc/03-04eca.doc
see also
http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/unisec/res/Toward%20Monash%202020.pdf
and in patic http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/unisec/res/Still%20Learning.pdf
NEW!! Monash Strategic Plan
http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/dvcap/ltp/LTPoverview.html
The nexus between teaching and research is often cited, but rarely well defined. Our research activities will both inform and enrich our curriculum and our teaching approach. This can only be achieved when there is strong linkage between the research and teaching of the university. We will define and identify the relationships between research and teaching, particularly as they inform and affect teaching
University of New South Wales
NEW!! Linking T and R at UNSW
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/staff/resources/LearningCommunity_180803.pdf
A site not to be missed! Report on an institutional initiative s
University of Sydney
http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/itl/Showcase2001/
University wide conference on Scholarly Inquiry in Teaching and Learning Theme E is on linking teaching and research.
Bringing Teaching and Research Together at Sydney University
http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/itl/docs/projects/default.htm
One of Sydney University's strategic aims is to bring teaching and research together. This developing strategy includes funded projects and the development of a performance indicator (and linked funding) on the scholarship of teaching.
David Boud and University of Technology Sydney
http://www.education.uts.edu.au/ostaff/staff/publications/db_20_scutrea_98.pdf
Reflections on attempting to create the link in adult education at UTS
Angela Brew, University of Sydney.
Enhancing the Quality of Learning Through Research-Led Teaching. Presentation at Oxford Brookes, April 2003. Download powerpoint slides.
NEW!! Angela Brew on research led teaching
http://ceds.vu.edu.au/seminars/2002/angelaBrew/seminar20020822_files/frame.htm
Includes video presentation and powerpoint slides
Linking at Sydney University
http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/rlt/
At the University of Sydney, which is a large research university with a commitment to excellence in teaching, the project to bring research and teaching together is a strategy directly designed to fulfill the University's Strategic Plan. Led by academics in the Institute for Teaching and Learning (ITL) in collaboration with faculties, the project will investigate the ways in which teaching and research can be integrated to enhance each other and to improve student learning.
Domains and dimensions of research led teaching
http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/rlt/issues/domains.htm
Given the international standing of the University of Sydney it is considered important that the University should position itself in relation to best practice. From discussions at Universities with which benchmarking relationships have been established, i.e. the Universities of Oxford, UCL and Edinburgh and in other universities in the UK and Australia as well as experience at the University of Sydney, a vision of research–led teaching has been developed.
Examples of research led teaching at http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/rlt/examples/
University of Western Australia
http://www.research.uwa.edu.au/policy/gp/centres.rtf
Nexus a required feature of establishing a University Centre: "2.4 Enhancing the teaching-research nexus A centre should enhance the teaching-research nexus in clearly identifiable ways through its activities or through ... "
University of Woollongong
http://cedir.uow.edu.au/nexus/
Drawing on a research project this University wide symposium contributed to implementing university wide policies to link teaching and research.
USC
NEW!! Linking on the Sunshine Coast
http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AbouttheUniversity/LearningTeaching/
Canada's Consortium For Online Higher Education and Research
http://www.cohere.ca/
COHERE is an alliance of leading Canadian research universities, working together to improve access to online learning opportunities and to integrate online learning with research culture and values. **
Conference in Inquiry
http://www.mcmaster.ca/learning/stlhe2002/
Reports on STLHE conference on inquiry learning.
No Place to Learn Why Universities Aren't Working by Tom Pocklington Allan Tupper
http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=1953
Book for general audience criticising Canadian universities for neglecting undergraduate teaching. Chapter 6 argues that …"Teaching and Research at Canadian Universities: The Myth of Mutual Enrichment." (From the website you can download Chapter 1).
It's Myth
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/essays/RESEARCH1.htm
The recent transformation of the university-transfer curriculum in three community colleges in British Columbia (in Malaspina College in Nanaimo, Okanagan College in Vernon, and Cariboo College in Kamloops) from two-year to four-year degree BA programs has in the past few months rekindled the old debate about the appropriate relationship between academic research,
University of Alberta
NEW!! Linking at University of Alberta
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/expressnews/articles/news.cfm?p_ID=4899&s=a
University of British Columbia
http://www.vision.ubc.ca/index.htm
Trek 2000 is the University of British Columbia's strategic vision for the 21st century. The Trek 2000 Web site provides information on Trek's principles, goals, strategies, and implementation. These goals include : "All undergraduate students entering UBC by the year 2003 will, in the course of a four-year degree programme, have a research-based learning experience that integrates the many research opportunities at UBC into undergraduate learning. This integration may take many forms, including research seminars, research assistantships, research projects, or research based inquiry and problem solving." The web site also reports on implementation strategies to achieve these goals
Politics at UBC
http://www.politics.ubc.ca/select/depart/unitplan.htm
Department strategy paper -including issues of teaching/research links in context of UBC strategy.
University of Calgary
NEW!! Undergraduate Research Action Plan
http://www.ucalgary.ca/gazette/june16-03/eule-report.html
Institutional policy re inquiry based learning. An Undergraduate Research Opportunities Action Plan was developed and implementation of the U of C Researchers' Speakers Series was coordinated in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President (Research) as a tool for introducing students to top scholars and the process of research.
NEW!! The Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) in Bone & Joint Health
http://www.kin.ucalgary.ca/undergraduateresearch/index.asp
The Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) in Bone and Joint Health has been implemented to provide undergraduate students with opportunities to work one-on-one with leading faculty from a variety of disciplines on research projects relevant to understanding normal joint function and disease processes affecting bones and joints. Early and direct involvement in research will improve the quality of undergraduate education and increase the potential for students' academic success.
Malaspina University-College
Research, Scholarship and Professional Activity at Malaspina University-College
http://web.mala.bc.ca/research/docs/Report2000.htm
The presentations of research or professional activity will also be more varied than those traditionally accepted by the universities. For example, in addition to publication in peer-reviewed journals and books, we would include publication in the "grey" literature, such as reports to companies, government agencies, or community groups, as well as conference presentations, musical performances, and art exhibitions. Although documenting the extent and quality of such diverse forms of peer or public review may prove to be challenging, these are the appropriate outlets for the activities that should and do play an important role at a university college. Whatever form the presentation takes, if a contribution to a field of knowledge is to result, it is essential that it be made available for peer or public review.
NEW!! Institutional Research Strategy
http://research.mala.bc.ca/DOCUMENTS/Strategic_2003/MUC_Strategic_Research_Plan.htm
Focused on explicit links to teaching. Malaspina University-College ( Nanaimo , British Columbia ) is committed to excellence in teaching and learning. Our academic culture is grounded in these values, and our key research themes derive their importance from them. Malaspina's research mission is to engage faculty and students in inquiry, enhance teaching and learning, advance disciplinary knowledge, and encourage interdisciplinary interaction among faculty and students. Early involvement in research helps students cope with complexity in a challenging world. We thus regard research as a foundation of undergraduate education and we are dedicated to helping our students contribute to national continuity in research training for the decades to come.
McMaster University
Inquiry Courses
http://www.mcmaster.ca/learning/inquiry/inquiry1.htm (redirected to dead link 10.11.03)
http://www.mcmaster.ca/learning/resources/inquiry.htm (redirected to dead link 10.11.03)
McMaster University has been involved in teaching Inquiry for over twenty years in elite programs and professional schools. Now, Inquiry is being offered to all first year students with a growing number of follow-up courses offered in subsequent years. In 2001, over 670 students in year one chose an Inquiry course.
Inquiry in the Disciplines
http://www.mcmaster.ca/cll/Inquiry/inquiry.in.the.disciplines/
First year Inquiry programs are currently well underway in Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, and the Bachelor of Health Science Program. In addition, Inquiry courses have long been offered in Programs such as Arts and Science, and Engineering and Society. Each discipline is encouraged to adapt and refine the question-driven Inquiry approach to meet the specific needs of the discipline.
Here the disciplines themselves describe how they conduct Inquiry courses. You will also find links to websites past and present for Inquiry courses
NEW!! Mcmaster: Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award
http://www.mcmaster.ca/cll/awards.and.recognition/petro.canada.htm
The Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award is a program that provides the opportunity for McMaster to build on this connection and engage undergraduates in faculty research to deliver greater benefits for undergraduate education.
- Campus-wide recognition for innovative research achievement by a young faculty member.
- $25,000 support for a candidate designed project to make this research accessible to undergraduate students. Under normal circumstances, the project needs to be completed in the year following receipt of the Award.
Queens University
NEW!! Queens University: Faculty Award
http://www.queensu.ca/idc/teachingawards/Baillie_Guidelines.pdf
Linking Teaching with Research
Recognizing program initiatives and instructional approaches that
research directly accessible to undergraduate and/or graduate students
active student involvement in research, through student learning
designed to take advantage of university research activities.
Royal Roads University
NEW!! "e-Dialogues for Sustainable Development" research project, Royal Roads University
http://www.e-dialogues.ca
Research and teaching are being linked in multiple ways - students are engaged as researchers on the project. Students are using the e-Dialogues as part of their curriculum and thesis research. Royal Roads University Public Forum, http://www.rrupublicforum.ca, to engage and inform the public and policy-makers oncritical public policy issues eg on Post-Kyoto,
University of Toronto
Northrop Frye Awards
http://www.alumni.utoronto.ca/events/awards/frye.htm
Co-sponsored by the University of Toronto Alumni Association and the provost of the university, the Northrop Frye Awards support the first objective outlined in the White Paper Plan to link teaching and research. Annually, one individual faculty member and one department or division are recognized with the award for demonstrating exemplary and innovative ways of achieving this goal.
The Joseph Sablé Centre for 19th Century French Studies (http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/news/items/sable.htm) was the 2001 recipient of the University of Toronto Northrop Frye Award. This award is given to a division at the University of Toronto which has demonstrated exemplary and innovative ways of linking teaching and research. It includes a monetary prize of $6,000. The Sablé Centre specialises in "training for research" for undergraduate and graduate students from various faculties and departments of the University of Toronto. The Centre provides students with training in research methods and with opportunities to work with experienced professors and researchers on research projects, and encourages students to publish the results of their work. The Centre offers a unique and "enriched" French studies experience because of its collections, its location and its working environment.
University of Toronto: University Library Policies
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/news/undergrad_services/report/chap_2.htm
To implement University policies to link teaching and research the University library policy has been re-thought to support such linkages.
Toronto : Professors to Link T and R
http://www.utoronto.ca/provost/pdadc_memos/2001-2002/pdadc18.htm
NEW!! Linking in Arts /Humanities at Univ of Toronto
http://www.teaching.artsci.utoronto.ca/integratingteaching.html
University of Victoria
NEW!! History Research Course
http://web.uvic.ca/terc/resources/newsletter0309.pdf
Who killed William Robinson? And see article on this at website.
York University
NEW!! York University library
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/ResearchAndInstruction/index.htm
Electronic support for students doing research. Ron Sheese, Academic Director
Centre for the Support of Teaching, York University, Toronto states "I would particularly recommend a look at the "new audio tutorial" as it is a very nice presentation for students regarding why they need to go beyond Google in doing their research. The first few minutes use only one slide; but after that intro, a wide variety of slides are used in helping students see how to use the full power of the library".
NEW!!
The bundling and unbundling of the teaching-research nexus
http://www.utwente.nl/cheps/summer_school/2004/lectures/lecturesendersnew.doc/
European Universities Association on the links
http://www.unige.ch/eua/En/Activities/Barcelona.pdf
Problem based learning (in the humanities)
http://www.samford.edu/pbl/TAC/abouttac.htm this link dead. Note of project from http://www.samford.edu/News/news2001/fipse.html
Joint project (2000-3) between Samford University (Alabama) and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands).
Electronic journal publishing Health Care student research Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Sweden
http://www.ep.liu.se/ej/sjhs/
"One aim of this journal is to stimulate the students to write scientific papers and to publish their results during their studies. To have travelled all the way from the initial problem formulation over the design of the study, collection of data and formulation of conclusions to publication in a real journal, is an important and educational experience for any student. Another aim of the journal is promote the scientific standard of the student's papers."
University of Rennes
http://biologos.univ-rennes1.fr/
A Biology student journal
Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain
http://web.salleurl.edu/arc/ingles/grupo.htm
ARC: Architecture, Representation, Computing
The goal of the research group ARC, Architecture-Representation-Computing, from Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, is to establish links between the fields of Architecture and Computing. Representation is the nexus between the two distinct fields. The research work is closely related to education. Integration of teaching and research is fundamental in this area, because it allows us:
· to consider teaching as pedagogic research, as opposed to a traditional conception of education as transmission of knowledge.
· to set concrete goals to the research work, following the pedagogic needs identified at a given time.
· to apply the results of the research to education, whether as new methodologies or as new systems that can effectively transform the way teaching is carried out.
The Enlargement Futures Project & European Integration
Knowledge for European Integration
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:9b9E7sCTXMsJ:www.ff.uni-lj.si/asrlo/golobIPTSpowerpoint.ppt+%22linking+teaching+and+research%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Options and strategies:
- target research intensive inward investment
- create centres of excellence in applied research with industrial linkages
- directly link research funds to S&T priorities
- build on strong university-based research growth
- linking teaching and research
The Hong Kong RAE values activities that enable teaching /research links
http://WWW.ugc.edu.hk/english/documents/RAE99/raegn99f.html
The Hong Kong University Grants Committee in their Research Assessment Exercise identifies and rewards outputs to each of Ernest Boyer's four forms of scholarship: discovery, integration, application and teaching.
Newsletter on Teaching /Research Nexus (2002)
http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/teachingresearchnexus.htm
NEW!! Operation Wallacea
http://www.opwall.com
Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects designed to underpin the achievement of specific wildlife conservation aims. The expeditions have been running for the last 8 years in a remote corner of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia and from 2003 in Honduras. In 2004 there will be over 40 main projects that general volunteers can join and more than 200 dissertation topics available at 12 main research sites in Sulawesi and Honduras. The research projects are organised by a 75 strong team of biologists, environmental scientists, geographers, social scientists and anthropologists together with expedition photographers and artists, expert trackers and forest support teams, diving staff and extensive logistics teams to support the wide range of projects completed. Over 25 papers are being published from each years' research and the data are being used to achieve conservation objective.
NEW!! Research in Third Level Institutions
http://www.hea.ie/
The Higher Education Authority's support for scholarship and basic research is central in meeting the obligations and opportunities for the higher education system. In the past five years, the HEA's involvement in this area has grown to such an extent that the Higher Education Authority is now the most significant source of support for third level research in the country. This project explicitly encourages /requires teaching /research links.
Teaching and Learning Criterion (25 points)
- This criterion is concerned with the contribution of the proposal to the quality of teaching and learning at the institution at all levels. In particular, the strength of proposals as to how there will be interplay between the disciplinary research and the education of undergraduates and postgraduates will be assessed. This will include how the research programme will interact with, inform and support the programme of learning for students at undergraduate and post-graduate level. This programme of learning includes the general curriculum of the institution and how it is delivered in terms of teaching and other methods to assist learning and the quality and development of teaching staff. Evidence of formal procedures and arrangements will be sought.
- General statements about the contribution of the proposal to the programme of teaching and learning will not be sufficient. It will be necessary to outline the specific measures which are proposed, or which are already in operation, which will enhance the contribution of the proposed programme to the teaching and learning activities of the institution and which will strengthen the links between teach ing and learning generally and research within the institution. Submissions which do not contain specific proposals in respect of this criterion will not be allocated any scores under this criterion.
See http://www.hea.ie/Research/HEA%20stand.pdf and http://www.irishscientist.ie/2001/contents.asp?contentxml=01p16.xml&contentxsl=IS01pages.xsl
NEW!! Scientific Training for Science Students University of Cork
http://www.ucc.ie/research/stars/
The Scientific Training by Assignment for Research Students (STARS) project comprises of an internet-based learning resource that has been designed to help undergraduate students develop a number of fundamental skills associated with conducting scientific research. In particular, it aims to improve the ability of students to plan, design, manage and execute scientific research whilst providing opportunities for formative assessment and rapid feedback
http://www.ucc.ie/research/stars/
For an article describing this http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/journal/vol2/beej-2-1.htm
NEW!!
http://www.irishscientist.ie/2003/contents.asp?contentxml=03p142.xml&contentxsl=is03pages.xsl
The School of Biological & Environmental Sciences, in conjunction with CampusOne (The distance learning campus of the University of Ulster - www.campusone.ulst.ac.uk ), has developed five high quality Distance Learning Postgraduate courses aimed at people working in the environmental field. The courses build directly on research expertise within the school, and offer students the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of knowledge in their selected field.
Audits of Teaching /Research
http://www.usyd.edu.au/about/quality/resources/nzaau_resources.shtml (Dead link 10.11.03)
A listing and electronic links of the New Zealand University audits of teaching /research links - compiled by the University of Sydney
David Woodhouse reflects on auditing the nexus
http://cedir.uow.edu.au/nexus/resources/dwoodhse.pdf
Defending the Nexus
http://library.psa.org.nz/collection/aus/05%20issues%20papers/teac%20on%20the%20teaching-research%20nexus.htm
New Zealand academics critique government attempts to weaken the nexus.
New Zealand Association of University Teachers questions proposals to break the nexus as a legislative requirement
http://library.psa.org.nz/collection/aus/05%20issues%20papers/teac%20on%20the%20teaching-research%20nexus.htm
The Tertiary Education Advisory Commission's Fourth Report (2001) makes the controversial recommendation that 'the current legislative requirement that degrees "be taught mainly by people engaged in research" be relaxed to allow under-graduate degrees to be taught by people with a comprehensive and current knowledge of their discipline and the skills to communicate this knowledge.'
New Zealand again
New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit in 2000
http://www.aau.ac.nz/
New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit in 2000 is auditing all universities for their institutional policies to integrate teaching and research. Institutional reports available.
Performance Based Funding for Research
http://www.tec.govt.nz/funding/pbrf.htm
Introduced in 2003 and modelled on the UK RAE: this will clearly impact on teaching /research relations.
http://www.minedu.govt.nz/web/downloadable/dl7503_v1/wg-report-for-final-consultation.doc
Proposals (Dec 2002 ) to introduce a UK RAE style approach to New Zealand -executive summary includes this statement "So as to reinforce the research-teaching nexus in degree programmes, all degree-granting providers and all academics within them who undertake research and/or degree-level teaching will be included in the quality evaluation process." You judge whether that will reinforce the teaching -research nexus.
The nexus in distance learning
http://www.deakin.edu.au/education/RIPVET/RIDE%20Papers/RIDE%20PDF%20Papers/Ch_4_White.pdf (Dead link 10.11.03)
Auckland University of Technology
http://www.aut.ac.nz/office_of_the_vice-chancellor/awards_teaching_research.shtml
Awards to Strengthen the Nexus
Annual award to individuals and departments
The individual or group would be expected to demonstrate several of the following:
§ Research into teaching of their discipline or programme area
§ Inducting students into research in their discipline or programme area
§ Teaching and researching in an inter-disciplinary area
§ Mentoring postgraduate students into teaching or tutorial work
§ Using their own research as illustrative of their subject area, and making the subject come alive with their own research
§ Postgraduate supervision which reflects the link between their supervision and research
§ Assisting other staff to build a nexus between teaching and research: (mentoring experienced teachers); or research and teaching (mentoring new teachers)
§ Actively contributing to a professional association that values the teaching/research nexus.
Awards for Linking: Aukland University of Technology
http://www.aut.ac.nz/office_of_the_vice-chancellor/awards_teaching_research.shtml
The Excellence in Teaching and Research Awards are intended to recognise and reward excellence in both teaching and research, recognising the dynamic interaction of the teaching/research nexus. The Academic Audit process highlights the need for universities to demonstrate the interactive nature of the teaching/research nexus, and in fact this element represents one of the key categories for quality audit. Having such an award will encourage AUT staff to reflect on and enact this link.
NEW!! Audit of the nexus
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/docs/teaching/pdfs/The%20Teaching_Research%20Nexus_Cycle2%20Audit%20Porfolio.pdf
Massey University
http://quality.massey.ac.nz/
The Quality Assurance web site for Massey University. There you will find much of interest re teaching/research relations and in particular a publication -Towards Understanding the Interdependence of Teaching and Research -which reports on and supported a conference for staff at Massey. The publication is at http://quality.massey.ac.nz/irt.html
Linking Teaching and Research at Brookes: Perspectives from New Zealand
Slides from a presentation made by Gordon Suddaby, Head of Educational Development at Massey University, New Zealand, at Oxford Brookes University on 16 March 2001 (click here to go to presentation).
Canterbury
University conference at Canterbury
http://cedir.uow.edu.au/nexus/symp_rec.html
Recommendations on strengthening the nexus
American Association for Higher Education
http://www.aahe.org/projects/campus_program/
Scholarship of Teaching CASTL Program
The American Association for Higher Education and Institutional Strategies for the Scholarship of Teaching (USA)
http://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/
The AAHE CASTL Campus Program supports institutions (and individuals) developing institutional policies for the scholarship of teaching, including teaching/research linkages. Provides valuable ideas and contacts for non US institutions including reports on institutional strategies.
Rethinking Scholarship and New Practice: A Central AAHE Priority By R. Eugene Rice
http://www.aahe.org/specialreports/part4.htm
Rankings rankings rankings for UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH. Is this an effective model /methodology? Read and think
Boyer Commission
Move to Research/Inquiry Learning
http://www.sunysb.edu/pres/0210066-Boyer%20Report%20Final.pdf
The Boyer Commission's follow-up report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After the Boyer Report, is on Stony Brook's Web site.Inquiry-Based Undergraduate Teaching in the Life Sciences at Large Research Universities: A Perspective on the Boyer Commission Report
William B. Wood
http://www.cellbioed.org/articles/vol2no2/article.cfm?articleID=57
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation Awards
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/02/pr0239.htm
NSF Director's Awards Recognize Connection Between Research and Teaching Six faculty members receive $300,000 each to expand their work Six university faculty members who have found significant ways to connect research with teaching will receive this year's National Science Foundation (NSF) Director's Awards for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS) for imaginative teaching applications in such areas as multimedia visualization, online resources for the study of fractal geometry, and spectroscopy and photochemistry to teach chemistry.
National Science Foundation (Mathematics)
Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences (VIGRE)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf01104/nsf01104.html
Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences (VIGRE)
Synopsis of Program: In response to many reports and recommendations on higher education, the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) designed these types of grants to departments in the mathematical sciences to carry out innovative educational programs in which research and education are integrated and in which undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty are mutually supportive.
National Science Foundation: Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/archives/raire/start.htm
Like the other strategies integrating research and education contributes to the attainment of the Foundation's three strategic goals: world leadership in research; service to society; and excellence in education.
National Science Foundation: Research Experiences for Undergraduates(USA)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf00107/nsf00107.htm
Competitively awards and rewards for institutions that effectively link teaching and research. Only US citizens and institutions can apply.
Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education (USA)
http://www.nsf.gov/OD/oia/programs/raire/start.htm (Dead link 10.11.03)
National Science Foundation Programme for US HE institutions/citizens. Provides valuable ideas and contacts for non US institutions.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION REQUIREMENTS
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf032/bicexamples.pdf
NSF requires all proposals to explicitly address the "Broader Impact" of the funded activity: "Effective integration of research and education at all levels infuses learning with the excitement of discovery and assures that the findings and methods of research are quickly and effectively communicated in a broader context and to a larger audience" (from "Merit Review Broader Impacts Criterion: Representative Activities")
The US National Science Foundation: Education Impacts
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf032/bicexamples.pdf
The NSF while of course focusing on supporting high level science: sees it central that such science supports the wider understanding of science in society including on (undergraduate) student learning . Indeed this focus in what has become very strong recently with all programmes /grants being required to address this wider impact. "Effective integration of research and education at all levels infuses learning with the excitement of discovery and assures that the findings and methods of research are quickly and effectively communicated in a broader context and to a larger audience" (from "Merit Review Broader Impacts Criterion: Representative Activities,"
National Conference on Undergraduate Research
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/gpra/anrpt/2000/DUEAnnualrpt2000.doc (Dead link 10.11.03)
NSF agency-wide effort to promote improvement in undergraduate science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) education for all students in all types of educational institutions.
One way to link teaching and research is to make library resources of research data for students to analyse
Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/render.userLayoutRootNode.uP
National Science Foundation has just (Dec 2002) "opened" the National Science Digital Library at www.nsdl.org. "...comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education."
NSDL (National Science Digital Library) Communication Portal
http://comm.nsdlib.org/
This portal provides users and developers of the NSDL with an online collaborative area. It includes public Workspaces for sharing NSDL information, discussing community and educational issues, and supporting library building. Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme - transforming learning and teaching
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_dlitc
The learning experience is being revolutionised by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the Internet in particular. Students increasingly turn to the web for educational and scholarly material. There is a need for better integration of the different technologies and applications being developed in the learning and teaching processes. This international programme, which is funded in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has been developed to bring about significant improvements in the learning and teaching process, through bringing emerging technologies and readily available digital content into mainstream educational use.
Earth Science linkages
http://www.dlesecommunity.carleton.edu/research_education/
Part of the work of Digital Library for Earth System Education Community Issues and Groups web site at Carleton College , Minnesota: funded by the National Science Foundation.
Other
Council for Undergraduate Research
http://www.cur.org./
The Council for Undergraduate Research helps to strengthen the research programs of faculty in predominantly undergraduate institutions and promotes research by undergraduate students in all settings of science, mathematics and engineering education. The Council believe that education is best served by faculty-student collaborative research combined with investigative teaching strategies. CUR provides avenues for faculty development and helps administrators to improve and assess the research environments of their institutions. CUR generates awareness and national support for undergraduate research.
Link Research: Linking student researchers with community groups
http://www.linkresearch.org (Dead link 10.11.03)
LINK enables community-based organizations to announce research projects and enables researchers to find meaningful research topics; enables college students to do research projects that utilize their skills to address real needs while building networks in the community.
NEW!!
http://www.mmuf.org/
Initiatives to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. The MMUF program is administered by over a hundred campus coordinators at 34 institutions and a consortium of 38 historically black colleges and universities within the membership of the United Negro College Fund.
As of January 2003 approximately two thousand undergraduate students representing thirteen cohorts have been selected as Mellon Fellows. The student constituency has the distinction of high academic achievement with a 98% retention and graduation rate. To date approximately 60% of MMUF students continue on to graduate school shortly following the baccalaureate, of which about 35% directly enter PhD programs
National Honors Society
http://www.nchchonors.org/
"Established in 1966, NCHC is an organization of college and university faculty, students, administrators and others committed to honors education. Its mission is to serve as a voice for excellence in undergraduate education. NCHC seeks to enhance opportunities (academic, cultural, and social) responsive to the educational needs of highly able and/or exceptionally motivated undergraduate students"…. There should be an honors curriculum featuring special courses, seminars, colloquia and independent study established in harmony with the mission statement and in response to the needs of the program."
Key feature of honors education include undergraduate research.
USNews
Academic Programs - Programs that enhance learning
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankacadprogs_brief.php
This year, U.S. News introduces a new ranking of schools with outstanding examples of academic programs that lead to student success. With the help of numerous education experts, including staff members of the Association of American Colleges and Universities who are focused on quality initiatives in higher education, we identified eight types of programs that have been shown to enhance learning. We then invited college presidents, chief academic officers, and deans of students to nominate up to 10 institutions with stellar examples of each.
Undergraduate research/Creative projects
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/acadprogs/acadprogs04_brief.php
Either independently or in small teams, and mentored by a faculty member, students do intensive and self-directed research or creative work that results in an original scholarly paper or other product that can be formally presented on or off campus.
NEW!! Undergraduate Research Summit
http://www.bates.edu/x50817.xml
The Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation provided support to hold an Undergraduate Research Summit meeting at Bates College on August 2-4, 2003. The purpose of the summit was to examine the issues involved in undertaking and sustaining chemistry research at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and to publish a final report that provides recommendations on how to enhance the number, quality, productivity, and visibility of chemistry research programs at PUIs. Recommendations in the report are aimed at individuals, departments, institutions, and funding agencies. See in particular the final report http://www.bates.edu/%5CPrebuilt%5Cchem-finalsummitreport.pdf
NEW!! Web Quest
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listquestsu.html
A webquest can be a long or short term activity that gives the learners the opportunity to explore and discover, through interaction with various resources, a subject that has been specifically designed for the learner. In other words readymade units of study using the internet as one of the components
NEW!! NRC. 2003b.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10497.html
"BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists," Committee on Undergraduate Biology Education to Prepare Research Scientists for the 21st Century, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy Press; online
University of Arizona
The Undergraduate Biology Research Program at University of Arizona
http://www.blc.arizona.edu/ubrp/
An excellent example of a discipline /departmental honours student program that is "designed to teach students science by involving them in biologically related research."
Berkeley
Mathematics summer institutes at Berkeley
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/sims/
Details on the program and most significantly research on its impact.
Undergradute Research Apprenticeship Program at Berkeley
http://research.berkeley.edu.urap/ (Dead Link 10.11.03)
"Provides an opportunity for Berkeley undergraduates to work one-on-one with faculty members on the cutting-edge research projects for which Berkeley is world-renowned. Students meet regularly with faculty for research mentoring and earn 1 unit of academic credit for each 3 hours of research work (limited to 4 units per term). The program is designed to stimulate awareness of advanced research and interest in graduate study. Students are not paid for their participation".
Bio-
NEW!! Biology at Moorhouse
http://www.pkal.org/template2.cfm?c_id=606
See also
http://www.hhmi.org/BeyondBio101/mhouse.htm
Biotechnology: thinking like researchers
http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/module1/vlabs.html
How To Calculate Biodiversity?
William R. Jones, MEES-698 (Biofilms and Biodiversity*), University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
This assignment asks students to conduct an online experiment by following a series of steps, reading extensive information, testing a biodiversity measurement tool, and reviewing a set of critical thinking answers. The assignment is intended to provide relevant, hands-on experience with the research process and allow students to learn by testing and evaluating scientific hypotheses.
This assignment is part of a Biofilms & Biodiversity course offered by the Collaborative Virtual University Education Program (VIRTUE), and it contains a number of interactive modules designed to develop practitioner skills in students. In one such assignment, "You're the Expert," students are asked to determine the biodiversity of an area that interests them and use what they have learned in previous assignments to analyze data and compute biodiversity measures.
This course and its assignments suggest powerful ways to use Web-based material and tools to create a virtual laboratory that encourages students to think and act like scientific researchers.
*Biofilms & Biodiversity is a pilot course in the Web Initiative in Teaching (WIT) project administered by the University System of Maryland's Institute for Distance Education.
This example features the use of text, images, and scripts.
Report on Undergraduate Biology
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309085357/html/
States courses have not kept up with research
University of Delaware
Problem Based Learning
http://www.udel.edu/pbl
University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/RAIRE/
University of Delaware's "Research-Based Education" project, an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation's Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education (RAIRE). The University of Delaware combines its research and education missions by: (1) involving as many undergraduates as is feasible in faculty research and (2) providing a discovery-oriented environment for those students who cannot be accommodated in research projects.
Digital libraries
DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education)
http://dlesecommunity.carleton.edu/research_education/
It is a grassroots, community-based effort involving teachers, students, and scientists working together to create a library of educational resources and services to support Earth system science education, at all levels, in both formal and informal settings. Here the focus is using the national…community to ensure that data is available for analysis
Digital libraries in support of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in geography
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_tl_geography
The project aims to develop electronic resources to support teaching and independent student learning at undergraduate levels within their existing programmes…. These electronic resources will be made available through interoperable digital library technology and integrated; directly into course units in undergraduate programmes supported by Virtual Learning Environment within each institution. This is part of the digital libraries in the classroom project supported by JISC(UK) and NSF (USA) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_dlitc
Building an experimental testbed to leverage digital libraries in the transformation of design engineering education
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_dl_design_engineering
The work has merit in bringing together a range of expertise from the University of Stanford (US) and Strathclyde (UK).
The project proposes the development, implementation and use of a testbed to improve the teaching and learning of students partaking in global team-based design projects. The project combines the use of digital libraries with virtual design studios.
The goal of the project is to enhance student learning opportunities by enabling them to partake in global, team-based design engineering projects, in which they directly experience different cultural contexts and access a variety of digital information sources via a range of appropriate technology.
To achieve this goal the project will deliver on the following objectives:
1. Teach engineering information retrieval, manipulation, and archiving skills to students studying on engineering degree programs.
2. Measure the use of those skills in design projects in all years of an undergraduate degree program.
This is part of the digital libraries in the classroom project supported by JISC(UK) and NSF (USA) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_dlitc
Emory
Inquiry at Emory
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2001/September/erSept.10/9_10_01research.html
Fall 2001 marked the formal launch of "Research at Emory," a University wide commission charged with determining the very nature of research and scholarship on the campus, examining everything from applications to infrastructure to funding. The plan is to, "in that we will be able to build on Teaching at Emory and will be able to make some statements about linking teaching and research. Having said that, part of the key debate is that, in this day and age, we tend to think of research in terms of external funding; as universities increasingly rely on external research funding, we start equating research with money. The commission, however, will center on a broad definition of scholarship."
Geology
Geology undergrad research
http://www.umt.edu/GEOLOGY/GeoDays_03/GeoDays_Home_files/framemain.htm
2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Geodays An Undergraduate Research Conference April 3-5, 2003
The 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Geodays is Spring 2003 and all undergraduate geoscience students are invited to attend! This conference is organized by undergraduates within our department, and is sponsored by the University Of Montana Geology Department. It is a wonderful way for undergraduate geoscientists to share their research
NEW!! Earth Science researchers links to school /community colleges
http://www.earth2class.org/
http://www.earth2class.org/1
Earth2Class" (E2C) is a unique science/math/technology learning resource for K-12 students, teachers, and administrators created through the collaboration of researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, curriculum and technology integration specialists from Teachers College, Columbia University, and classroom teachers from the New York City metropolitan area. E2C centers around "Saturday Workshops for Educators" held at the Lamont-Doherty campus in Palisades N.Y. Before, during, and after each workshop, participants and others are able to utilize the resources available on the E2C Internet site. E2C relies on a unique synergy of specialists in curriculum, educational technology, and scientific research, but the key feature is involvement of the Lamont scientists. Their availability through workshops, web site postings, and e-mail expose teachers and students to stimulating, cutting-edge research that help develop K-12 curriculum activities linked directly to "real world questions." Drawing on the scientists' expertise, teachers can show students how the science concepts and skills they are learning applies outside the classroom, as well as to other aspects of their studies
NEW!! Undergraduate Research
http://web.mit.edu/mission/
Incoming 2003 Class Engineering /Geology at MIT
See also http://eaps.mit.edu/research/Hodges/Teaching.html
Students enrol before entry in this year one class with linked field class where they collectively research …
See also MIT Newsletter http://web.mit.edu/tll/published/efforts.html
Georgetown University
- GU-FLIRT
http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/flirt/docs/
Foreign Language Initiatives in Research and Teaching
GU-FLIRT is a cross-linguistic faculty-graduate student research collaborative that aims to strengthen research, teaching, and learning in foreign languages at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As its name indicates, GU-FLIRT focuses on classroom second language acquisition. A further defining characteristic is its collaborative nature, between faculty and graduate students. By now more than twenty faculty and an equal number of graduate students belong to the group which hopes to draw on a near-unique strength at the University.
Hampshire College, Mass,
Designing Research Based Courses
http://helios.hampshire.edu/~apmNS/design/
Provides guidance on inquiry based courses particularly in the sciences. Based at Hampshire College Mass. USA.
Havard
Harvard University - Bioscience
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/08.22/12-grant.html
And now, a new $1.6 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will ensure that their cutting-edge research finds its way into the lives and laboratories of undergraduates.
Harvard - Project Zero
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/TfU.htm.
While developed for high school students the principles may be relevant to linking teaching and research at college level. During the first three years, the collaborators developed a framework that stresses in-depth learning. This framework provides teachers with a language and structure for planning their curriculum and for discussing teaching for understanding with other colleagues and with their students. At its core is a performance view of understanding: If a student "understands" a topic, s/he can not only reproduce knowledge, but also use it in unscripted ways.
Widener Library at Harvard - Research and Teaching
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fdo/essays/mccormic.htm
A professor's perspective on Widener Library inevitably centers on research and teaching, and on making connections: connections in research, connections in teaching, connections between research and teaching. To stand in Widener Library is to stand in one of the great achievements of civilization
Howard Hughes Awards
http://www.hhmi.org/news/083101.html
$1million award to "20 research scientists on the basis of their plans to transmit the excitement and values of scientific research to undergraduate education".
Report of Howard Hughes Foundation on "Beyond Bio 101" describes the remarkable changes taking place in how American college students learn biology- http://www.hhmi.org/BeyondBio101/
Information Technology
Information Technology and Developing Student Research Skills
http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/events/whatsnew/events/UW.ppt
Who is teaching students how to find, use, and analyze information effectively?
Real world Data on the Intranet
http://www.lttechno.com/links/spreadsheets.html
Mainly for high school -but the basic idea of getting students access to data …and many of the sites -many with maths and scientific emphasis - are relevant to HE
Web based/supported course
The Silicon Valley : 1930 -2000
http://poweredge.stanford.edu/SV/hsv.html (Dead Link 10.11.03)
Example of WebTools for enabling collaboration in research and teaching University of Stanford (Tim Lenoir: History and Philosophy of Science)
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/TimLenoir/collabor.html
John Hopkins
Undergraduate Research Symposium at John Hopkins
http://www.jhu.edu/urs/background.html (Dead Link 10.11.03)
This event allows students who participate in all areas of research, including the Humanities and Social Sciences, to share their work and be recognized for it. We hope this will motivate undergraduates to conduct original research and promote interaction between the academic departments at the student level
Journey North
Journey North - international collaborative student research project
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Journey North is an International, collaborative study of wildlife migration and seasonal change that, in spring 2000, involved over 4500 schools and represented more than 250,000 students in the United States and Canada. Students share their own field observations on the journeys of a dozen migratory species, with live interactive programming from February 2nd to June 1st. Students share data with other students and with scientists who provide their expertise directly to the classroom. As the spring season sweeps across the hemisphere, students note changes in daylight, temperatures, and all living things as the food chain comes back to life. Now in its seventh season
Madison
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/employment/pv_044280.html (Dead Link 10.11.03)
NEW!! Madison: Hougen Professorship Fund: Linking research and teaching
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/che/newsletter/2004_winter/Article03_hougen.html
University of Maryland
Project Based Learning at University of Maryland (Gemstone)
http://www.gemstone.umd.edu/
This innovative programme is a four year research based enquiry where teams of 10-15 students investigate a technological and social issue.
Supporting Minority Students: University of Maryland
http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/may2001/intractable/umbc.html
Special programme to attract able minority students by offering summer research experience to high school students.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.mit.edu/urop/
The Undergradute Research Opportunities (UROP) cultivates and supports research partnerships between undergraduates and MIT faculty members. MITs UROP was one of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States to invite undergraduates to participate in research as the junior colleagues of faculty.
Exploring the Amazon rain forest at MIT
http://web.mit.edu/terrascope/www/
This is one example of MIT's undergraduate research programme. This year, Mission 2006, whose focus will be designing new ways to monitor the status of the Amazon rainforest, will become part of the Terrascope project, which adds a second-semester class in which the students will design and build the computer simulations and experimental observational tools necessary to implement the design they created in the first semester. (http://web.mit.edu/terrascope/www) From the moment they arrive at MIT, these students will be working as researchers, exploring new problems and trying to solve them.
University of Michigan
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
http://www.artsofcitizenship.umich.edu/
The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) creates research partnerships between first and second year students and University of Michigan faculty. Begun in 1989 with 14 student/faculty partnerships the program continues to grow, offering more first and second year students the opportunity to be part of an exciting research community. Today, approximately 900 students and over 600 faculty researchers are engaged in research partnerships. UROP was one of several initiatives created to improve the retention and academic achievement of under-represented students on the University of Michigan campus. Today, the program includes both minority and majority students but maintains its original emphasis on underrepresented minority students and an emerging focus on women in science students.
University of Michigan listing of US sources and projects
http://www.undergraduate.research.umich.edu/homereports.html
North Carolina State University
Departmental Awards for Linking
http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/dept_awards/criteria.html
One of the 5 Criteria is
"Linking research, creative activity, and extension with teaching and learning for the benefit of students
o Brings faculty experience and expertise in research, creative activity, and extension to bear on enhancing teaching and student learning
o Involves students in research projects and extension undertakings ."
Penn State
The Schreyer National Conference at Penn State
http://www.shc.psu.edu/
Penn State organises an annual conference and linked special university programme to progress undergraduate research.
NEW!! Conference on Undergraduate Research :Selected Reports
http://www.kon.org/psu_conf.html
Schreyer National Conference on Innovations in Undergraduate Research and Honors Education, Penn State University, 2001.
Project Kaleidoscope
http://www.pkal.org/
Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) is an informal (US) national alliance working to build strong learning environments for undergraduate students in mathematics, engineering and the various fields of science. Towards that end PKAL sponsors an annual series of Summer Institutes that provide opportunities for faculty, administrators and other stakeholders.
University of Richmond
Curricula Reform
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/planning/docsupport/studentprofscholar.htm
1. To enhance the educational experiences of our students by providing significant opportunities for each student to supplement his/her course of study with original scholarship, real research, and/or creative activity.
2. To increase opportunities for faculty to develop distinctive combinations of teaching and research or creative activity.
3. To create an infrastructure here at Richmond that supports unique opportunities for undergraduate scholarship.
4. To develop Richmond's international reputation as an excellent comprehensive university through the promotion of outstanding student-driven scholarship
Rochester, MN
Initiative for Minority Student Development
http://www.mayo.edu/mgs/imsd.html
The mission of the Mayo Clinic Initiative for Minority Student Development is to train and guide students toward careers in biomedical research. This research includes the continuum from basic laboratory studies to carefully controlled clinical trials. The focus of the program is to increase the number of researchers among underrepresented ethnic minorities and to encourage others with a demonstrated interest in studying the medical research questions of these groups.
Rutgers University (New Jersey)
Undergraduate Research at Rutgers University (New Jersey)
http://acheron.rutgers.edu/urru/ (Dead Link 10.11.03)
A range of institutional strategies to ensure that undergraduates are involved in (staff) research.
Southern Carolina National Centre
Introductory and Capstone Courses
http://www.sc.edu/fye/
Two of the principal recommendations of the Boyer inspired 1998 Reinventing Undergraduate Education were for 'Constructing an Inquiry Based Freshman Year' and 'Build on the Freshman Foundation'. The Southern Carolina National Centre supports efforts to promote enquiry learning in introductory (101) and graduating capstone/synoptic courses (401).
Southern Illinois
Paul Simon Award at Southern Illinois
http://www.siue.edu/ORP/FACFUND/index.htm (Dead Link 10.11.03)
Note this is a general research page -you need to click on the left of the screen where it says Paul Simon: details on individual recipients are at http://www.siue.edu/ORP/ The Simon Award recognizes faculty members who contribute original research or creative activities and integrate that research or creative activity into their teaching activities. A plaque and a $5,000 award, routed through the payroll system, will be presented to the honoree. The Simon Award will not be given automatically each year; it will only be awarded when a nominee of superior merit is selected. Only one Award will be given annually. The Simon Awardee will be expected to hold a seminar for graduate students and faculty about integrating research into teaching activities.
Samford University (Alabama)
Problem based learning (in the humanities)
http://www.samford.edu/pbl/TAC/abouttac.html
Joint project (2000-3) between Samford University (Alabama) and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands).
Santa Clara University
Mentoring Student Research Assistants Santa Clara University
http://www.scu.edu/facultydevelopment/mentoring-student.cfm
NEW!! Linking at Santa Clara University
http://www.scu.edu/provost/facultydevelopment/teaching/researchteaching.cfm
Science Labs
Science Labsas sites for student research
http://search.nap.edu/readingroom/books/str/C.htmls
This is a US site part of a national project on science teaching
http://search.nap.edu/readingroom/books/str/notice.html
Stanford University
I-RITE program
http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/i-rite/
I-RITE (integrating research into the teaching environment) is a program at Stanford University that integrates research and teaching by having PhD students describe their research in brief, compelling statements understandable to novices in the field.
Stony Brook (New York)
Re-invention Centre at Stony Brook (New York)
http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/
Provides ideas and resources to ensure that undergraduate students benefit from attending a research university. The Center was born of the excitement and intense national and international interest generated by the Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998) http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf The Boyer Commission's follow-up report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After the Boyer Report, is also on Stony Brook's Web site. http://www.sunysb.edu/pres/0210066-Boyer%20Report%20Final.pdf
Sweet Briar College
Student research at Sweet Briar College -Virginia
http://www.sbc.edu/research/
"When you think of Academic Research, the first thing that comes to mind is a large university bustling with white-coated professors and harried graduate students. At most institutions, underclassmen never get near a lab beyond the cookie cutter exercises in their 101 classes. Not at Sweet Briar. Beginning in their very first-year Sweet Briar students have the opportunity to work side by side with their professors on high-level research in a variety of disciplines.
Why Remarkable Women Choose Sweet Briar http://www.sbc.edu/academics/why_choose_sbc.html
· Sweet Briar offers an outstanding liberal arts education, providing a solid foundation for advanced academic study, careers and a life of continual growth, responsibility and fulfillment. A liberal arts education is the time-proven way to prepare yourself for a changing world.
· 8:1 student/faculty ratio means that you are taught by faculty whose primary responsibility is teaching. Our average class size is 12.
· You know your professors... and they know you. Our faculty have earned accolades in national rankings for their accessibility and engagement in and out of the classroom. As mentors, the letters of recommendation they write for you will be personal - not cookie cutter.
· Research and Creativity. From the first day you step on campus, you will have the opportunity to participate in high-level research, scholarship and projects that other schools reserve for seniors and grad students. Our students curate art exhibits, conduct DNA research, choreograph dance programs, and travel the world in pursuit of knowledge and experience.
University of Virginia
NEW!! http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/
Essays in History, the annual journal sponsored by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, has appeared solely in an electronically published format since 1994. A peer-reviewed journal by the graduate students of the Corcoran Department of History, Essays in History seeks to publish articles based on primary sources in all fields of history by all scholars, from undergraduates to tenured professors
Washington
Reforming the PhD
http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/
One of the issues here is helping postgrads to see how their doctoral research training can later support student learning.
University of Washington Educational Partnerships
http://www.washington.edu/eplt/
Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies, established in 1998, was created to ensure that the broadest range of communities have access to university research and education expertise; to forge reciprocal relationships between the university and diverse communities; to create new opportunities for community-based research and learning; and to develop and diffuse learning technologies, both on and off campus
University of Wisconsin
Undergraduate Scholars Program
http://www.lssaa.wisc.edu/urs/
URS is a campus-wide program that introduces first and second year students to the research mission of the university by involving them in research projects in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Centre for Higher Education Development, Coventry University
http://legacywww.coventry.ac.uk/legacy/ched/
The Centre for Higher Education Development is a home for Teaching and
Learning and Research at Coventry University, including online learning
and WebCT support.**
ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme
http://www.ex.ac.uk/ESRC-TLRP/
The ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme’s prime objective is
to support research which will lead to improvements in the achievement
of learners of all ages, in all sectors and contexts of education, training
and lifelong learning throughout the UK. The Programme comprises a number
of large-scale research projects and other related activities designed
to achieve that aim.
Institute for Learning and Teaching
http://www.ilt.ac.uk
The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is a professional
body for all who teach and support learning in higher education in the
UK.**
LTSN
http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/
The LTSN is a major network of 24 subject centres based in higher education
institutions throughout the UK and a single Generic Centre. It aims to
promote high quality learning and teaching through the development and
transfer of good practices in all subject disciplines, and to provide
a 'one-stop shop' of learning and teaching resources and information for
the HE community.**
see also:
CEBE
http://cebe.cf.ac.uk/
The Centre for Education in Built Environment (CEBE) is one of UK Higher Education's 24 subject centres which form part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN). The Centre aims to promote high quality learning and teaching within the disciplines of Architecture, Planning, Landscape, Building and Surveying. **
GEES
http://gees.ac.uk/
The LTSN subject centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Contains some case studies of relevance to planning.
GENERIC
http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/genericcentre/index.asp
The LTSN Generic Centre brokers expertise on aspects of learning and teaching that cross subject boundaries and are common to all disciplines.
Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/6_archive/link
Developing web site to support Oxford Brookes institutional strategy:
includes details on research on student perceptions on staff research;
bibliography of research on teaching /research relationships; suggestions
on how staff can design courses to better ensure students benefit from
staff research.
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