Connected Class on Community Engaged Research
Through my #LTHEchat I was pointed in the direction of this current course going on through VCU on Community Engaged Research, officially called Collaborative Curiosity: Designing Community-Engaged Research. I’d like to participate some as it could be a useful toolset to bring in the student voice and other communities of users into more of my library projects. But I’m also super curious checking it out from an educator perspective, in a meta sense, looking at how this course is put together, organized, facilitated, what technologies, what pedagogy and techniques, etc.
Some early highlights from how it’s put together
Course website, seemingly a VCU Wordpress Multisite, is openly published and has learner blogs feeding sections of it via RSS feeds / bloggregate
Getting started and overview make it clear that there are many ways to be involved in the course, even as community members who are just curious and want to dip in a little bit
The learning outcomes in the Syllabus are awesome in their visual presentation and clear, attractive language
Weekly Twitter chats
Using Diigo I suppose to share links and resources, but I need to investigate this set up more. I’ve almost forgotten about this tool. I recall really liking it at first, but the design is a little clunky by modern web standards. Nonetheless, I’m interested to see how it’s being used.