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Understanding The Research Practices Of Humanities Doctoral Students At Yale University, Jana Krentz, Denise Hersey, Gwyneth Crowley, Melissa Grafe, Sarah Calhoun Mar 2015

Understanding The Research Practices Of Humanities Doctoral Students At Yale University, Jana Krentz, Denise Hersey, Gwyneth Crowley, Melissa Grafe, Sarah Calhoun

Jana Krentz

A team of Yale Universitylibrarians developed a research project to understand how humanities doctoral students were identifying, accessing, using, and organizing research materials, and what habits and research methodologies they had developed. In addition the project team attempted to identifychallenges, including workspace needs. Based on the findings, the team prepared recommendations on how the Yale University Library system can better support humanitiesdoctoral students and to help improve their academic success. Although these recommendationsare unique to Yale, other similar libraries may find them to be of use.

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We Will Rock You: Curricular Disruption In The Classroom, Joyce Lazier Oct 2012

We Will Rock You: Curricular Disruption In The Classroom, Joyce Lazier

joyce lazier

This paper will address the “integrating diverse disciplinary approaches to teaching, learning and SOTL” conference thread. My original question was simply how to get the students to spend more time editing their research papers to obtain a higher quality paper. This led to the idea of creating an iMovie research paper where the students would have to narrate their text, add images, and music for a final project. I put together a proposal requesting iPads for my seven students in Modern Philosophy. The final iMovie project brought together various disciplines since it required the student to find both visual components …

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Tmi! Harnessing And Taming The Wealth Of Information With Mobile Devices, Joyce Lazier, Samantha Birk Dec 2011

Tmi! Harnessing And Taming The Wealth Of Information With Mobile Devices, Joyce Lazier, Samantha Birk

joyce lazier

A showcase of the collaborative and creative power of the iPad to re-invision the classroom and better engage the student.

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