CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

  • About CNI
    • Membership
    • CNI Collaborations
    • Staff
    • Steering Committee
    • CNI Awards
    • History
    • CNI News
  • Program Plan
    • Current Program Plan
    • Program Plan Archive
  • Topics
  • Events & Projects
    • Membership Meetings
    • Workshops & Projects
    • Other Events
    • Event Calendar
  • Resources
    • Publications by CNI Staff
    • Program Plan
    • Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
    • Videos & Podcasts
    • Follow CNI
    • Historical Resources
  • Contact Us

Building an Online, Cross-Disciplinary Community-based Research (CBR) Learning Community: Initial Observations

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Spring 2007 Project Briefings / Building an Online, Cross-Disciplinary Community-based Research (CBR) Learning Community: Initial Observations

April 14, 2007

Deanna Cooke
Director of Research, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service
Georgetown University
Joan Cheverie
Head, Digital Library Services
Georgetown University

At Georgetown University many students are engaged in collaborative research with community organizations that support social change. However, there is little interaction between students and faculty from different disciplines, and these researchers rarely have opportunities to document and share their work. Through support from the Provost’s Undergraduate Learning Initiative grant that supports teaching and learning, the Center for Social Justice and the University Library are collaborating to develop an online CBR community.

  • The online CBR learning community seeks to augment the community-based research being conducted by allowing students to do the following:
    Share research strategies and support each other’s projects. For example, psychology students can provide interviewing skills to chemists who want to assess residents’ attitudes about their research project on the polluted Anacostia River in Washington, DC.
  • Share resources across disciplines. For example, students who work with high school biology classes can learn about the housing community in which their students live from a sociology student working on affordable housing research.
  • Publicize their work through online research posters that give details about both the challenges and successes they face in their work.
  • Publish findings through the development of an online, peer reviewed CBR journal.

In this session, the principal investigators will describe the components of the online CBR learning community, the model they have developed that illustrates their vision for integrating scholarship, collaborative learning, and publication into the undergraduate research experience, and they will share their observations gained from the initial cohort.

Handout (MS Word)


 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2007 Project Briefings
Tagged With: CNI2007spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Friday, March 1st, 2013

 

Contact Us

21 Dupont Circle
Suite 800
Washington, DC, 20036
202.296.5098

Contact us
Copyright © 2023 CNI

  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site map

Keeping up with CNI

CNI-ANNOUNCE is a low-volume electronic forum used for information about the activities and programs of CNI, and events and documents of interest to the CNI community.
Sign up

Follow CNI

  • View cni.org’s profile on Facebook
  • View cni_org’s profile on Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo

A joint project