Mobile Mapping and its Potential for Faculty Collaboration and Undergraduate Student Learning
Undergraduate research is a high impact practice for student learning, but the key is often to match projects with tools that build students’ skills as they learn about a topic. Digital tools now profligate to the point that they are almost overwhelming to the student and teacher alike. These tools,...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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ILCEA
2020
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Undergraduate research is a high impact practice for student learning, but the key is often to match projects with tools that build students’ skills as they learn about a topic. Digital tools now profligate to the point that they are almost overwhelming to the student and teacher alike. These tools, coupled with computing have forged an entirely new field: digital humanities. Our manuscript discusses how one easy to use, student friendly digital tool—ARCGIS’s mobile app, Collector—is used in collaborative undergraduate research. The tool’s usefulness stems from its potential to contribute to the relationship between the discourse on digital humanities with its actual practice in the classroom. The Collector App encourages undergraduate researchers to go beyond the confines of the classroom and into the field to conduct research with one of their favorite tools, their smartphone. The Collector App allows past-present-and future classes of students to intermingle in a digital space that is devoted to creating knowledge for public use. The easy-to-use digital tool facilitates undergraduates in the Humanities and other disciplines to become cognizant of the world immediately around them in a new way while also equipping them with a technical skill that may be applied in other courses as well as in future employment scenarios. In short, the Collector App serves as a place where applied research and the scholarship of discovery intersect. As such, the Collector App contributes to the expansion of the digital humanities into undergraduate education. We present as evidence several different collaborative digital undergraduate projects that span classes and semesters and all involve primary field research through Collector. The Collector-based research projects have encouraged students to build skills while contributing to knowledge in new ways. |
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