Strategies for Development and Implementation
How you’ll set your project up depends on the particular factors of your course such as:
- course content
- duration of the course
- number of students
- course learning outcomes
- other crucial assignments and activities and their time allotted
- developmental level and perceived prior experience of students
A successful adaptation of the Collaborative Research Model for your course will depend on your careful planning to predict how those variables will interact with model features. Which features will work for your course? Which will need to be modified? For instance, you’ll need to make decisions about:
- how to establish the problem for exploration (whether to use a single, common problem or an umbrella topic with related problems)
- how learning teams will be established and maintained
- what deliverables best support your students’ success—oral, written, or a combination of both
- which features of Blackboard will be most useful in supporting the project
- what kind of assessment process you will use and how you will prepare your students for it
In this section, we’ll take a look at some of those issues, but keep in mind that the staff at the Teaching Effectiveness Program are happy to work with you one-on-one in developing your collaborative research project.
