Abstract
Undergraduate research experiences enhance learning and professional development, but providing effective and scalable research training is often limited by practical implementation and orchestration challenges. This paper introduces Agile Research Studios (ARS)-a socio-technical system that expands research training opportunities by supporting research communities of practice without increasing faculty mentoring resources. ARS integrates and advances professional best practices and organizational designs, principles for forming effective learning communities, and design of social technologies to overcome the orchestration challenge of one faculty researcher mentoring 20 or more students. We present the results of a two-year pilot of the Design, Technology, and Research (DTR) program, which used the ARS model to improve the quality of learning, produce research outcomes, and lower the barrier to participation while increasing the number of students who receive authentic research training.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 220-232 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450343350 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 25 2017 |
Event | 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017 - Portland, United States Duration: Feb 25 2017 → Mar 1 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW |
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Other
Other | 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Portland |
Period | 2/25/17 → 3/1/17 |
Funding
We thank Rob Miller, Don Norman, Chris Riesbeck, and members of the Design, Technology, and Research program for helpful discussions. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1623635.
Keywords
- Agile Research
- Community of practice
- Regulation skills
- Research training
- Self-directed learning
- Socially shared regulation of learning
- Socio-technical systems
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Human-Computer Interaction