On-Line Digital Data Documentation: An Integrated Model for Teaching Media Arts and Sciences

TitleOn-Line Digital Data Documentation: An Integrated Model for Teaching Media Arts and Sciences
Faculty/College/UnitEducation
StatusCompleted
Duration2 Year
Initiation04/01/1999
Completion03/31/2002
Project Summary

UBC has embarked on a mission to create an interdisciplinary culture of research in undergraduate education with a focus on Internationalism, Integration, and Information Technology. The goal of this proposal is to create an integrated model for describing how teaching and learning will change in the context of information technologies and interdisciplinarity.

In YEAR 1 of this project, two initiatives were successfully completed: 1) Graduate students from the Faculty of Education worked with undergraduate students in Earth and Ocean Science, creating an interactive web site of their field experiences and made digital movies to share with other students and faculty using WebConstellations, a knowledge-building tool developed in MERLin.

In YEAR 2 of this project, students will work as collaborative researchers, taking ownership over their own knowledge building. They will maintain, and modify the web sites, adding valuable knowledge to the curriculum while investigating the meaning of interdisciplinarity. Our mission is to enable students in Education and Science, and eventually in other faculties, to document their learning experiences and design on-line digital media objects which relate to and extend the subjects they are studying. We think this project is an essential component in the design of a knowledge-based community.

Funding Details
Year 1: Project YearYear 1
Year 1: Funding Year1999/2000
Year 1: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 1: Principal InvestigatorRicki Goldman-Segall
Year 1: Funded Amount50,000
Year 1: Team Members

Ricki Goldman-Segall, Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education

Year 2: Project YearYear 2
Year 2: Funding Year2000/2001
Year 2: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 2: Principal InvestigatorRicki Goldman-Segall
Year 2: Funded Amount20,000
Year 2: Team Members

Ricki Goldman-Segall, Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education
Kurt Grimm, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Faculty of Science / Co-Principal Investigator
Jaymie Matthews, Geophysics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science
Maggie Beers, Ph.D. Student, Language Education, Faculty of Education
John Maxwell, Ph.D. Student, Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education
Ricardo Trujeque, Ph.D. Student, Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education
Antonieta Rivera, Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Arts

Advisors:

Julyet Benbasat, Microbiology and Immunology / Associate Dean, Faculty of Science
John Gosline, Director, Integrated Science Program, Zoology, Faculty of Science
John Willinsky, Technology and Literacy Chair, Language Education, Faculty of Education