Call for Proposals to Marquette Faculty: Digital Scholarship Project
The Center for Teaching & Learning
The Digital Scholarship Lab (http://www.marquette.edu/library/digitalscholarship) was launched in 2016 to concentrate library services and resources into a single point of support for the growing number of Marquette faculty and student research projects involving web development, digital posters, mapping, data analysis, text visualization, and other means of digital knowledge production and communication. The Digital Scholarship Lab supports students through all the stages of digital work by connecting students with resources, software, hardware, and librarian expertise. The Lab is a distinctly multidisciplinary space with a set of services that encourage pedagogical and research interests across departments and colleges.
Digital literacy is comprised of the ability to produce creative, scholarly materials for the digital world. Librarians are integral to the teaching and learning mission of Marquette and collaborate with faculty to foster digitally literate students who can use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information. These are essential skillsets across disciplines, fields and professions.
The Center for Teaching and Learning invites proposals from faculty for a new or revised course that incorporates digital literacy into their course. Please direct inquiries to Shaun Longstreet (8-1777). The due date for 2017-18 proposals is:
May 1, 2017
Award:
· Up to $3000.00 stipend for faculty; $2500.00 payable at the end of the course development (a full syllabus with Digital Scholarship Lab activities and assignments laid out) and a final $500.00 payable upon submission of the assessment results. The stipend may be shared if more than one faculty member is involved.
· Access to the Digital Scholarship Lab space and software for the learning activities (Coordinated with Elizabeth Gibes in the Library)
· Assistance with identifying digital tools and software for student projects
· Introductory instruction and peer tutor support for using digital tools
· Research consultation support for students to assist them in finding information for their projects
· An opportunity to present one’s experience and findings to university colleagues at a future CTL reception.
Eligibility:
All full-time participating and tenure track faculty are eligible.
Application:
All proposals must have the following components in their description:
1) Problem statement (250 word maximum):
Describe how the use of the Digital Scholarship Lab can contribute to overcoming a teaching bottleneck or better achieving a significant learning objective(s). This objective should be broad enough that it is applicable to the larger discipline within which the course is situated.
Outline of Learning Activities (1200 word maximum):
The proposal must have a digital literacy component requiring students to discover, evaluate and use information to create a digital project. These learning activities must connect in ways that concretely contribute to students achieving a specific learning objective within the course. Each activity must have a writing component for students to reflect, engage and document their thinking process.
Timeline, budget and milestones (150 word maximum)
For better planning and allocation of time and resources, having a schedule with milestones for deliverables is required. 1) If there is to be a split of the funds between faculty, or if the funds are to be used for student workers, this is the section to outline those aspects of the proposal. 2) Briefly outline a schedule for developing and implementing activities for the course. Provide approximate estimations of which weeks the Digital Scholarship Lab activities would take place. All course development must be complete by August 15th, 2017.
2) Assessment plan (500 word maximum):
Given the learning objectives that the library supported activities are designed to help students achieve, how will student learning be assessed? For example:
· a summative digital project that demonstrates course understanding and digital literacy,
· proficiency in a particular activity that grew from learning and engagement supported by the library,
· levels of participation measuring in-class student skills and/or knowledge application.
The proposal must indicate a commitment to document the incorporation of Digital Scholarship Lab activities in the course implementation process. This documentation can be short paragraphs that highlight changes made to a course, what worked, what did not work, what changes are made during the course offering and what changes will be made before the course is offered again. The value of recording these steps is to add to the CTL’s library of resources for other faculty interested in developing a digital scholarship based course. Finally, describe how you will capture and summarize student participation data as well as the results of class progress?
3) A statement of support from applicant’s Department Head needs to be appended to the proposal or sent directly to
NB: Proposals that contain indications for sustainable learning activities will have priority (i.e. the course is part of a major’s requirement, or regularly offered by the proposal writer). Likewise, activities that lend themselves to other courses in the discipline or beyond the University will receive higher consideration.