Undergraduate Research in Online Virtual and Hybrid Courses

<p>With the growing interest in undergraduate research as a high-impact practice, and the recognition that college education is increasingly moving online, this book – the first to do so – provides a framework, guidance from pioneering practitioners, and a range of examples across disciplines on how to engage remote students in research.</p><p>Two foundational chapters set the scene. For those new to incorporating undergraduate research in their courses, the opening chapter provides an introduction to its evolution and practice, and reviews the evidence of its benefits for students, faculty, and institutions. The second addresses the benefit that undergraduate research can bring to online learning and provides an overview of the ways research can be incorporated into online and virtual courses to meet the course and student learning objectives. The remaining chapters illustrate implementation of undergraduate research in courses across many disciplines. They address thematic issues related to the work and its effects on students, such as transitioning them from users of, to active participants in, research; and consideration of the technological tools needed to support students in a virtual environment. The contributors, some of whom have been implementing these practices for some years, offer important insights and expertise.</p><p>While the examples range across the behavioral sciences, business, education, the health professions, the humanities, social sciences, and STEM, readers will find much of value and inspiration from reading the chapters beyond their disciplines.</p><p><i>A Co-Publication with AAC&U</i></p> <p>Foreword — <i>Lynn Pasquerella</i> Introduction—<i>Jennifer G. Coleman, Nancy H. Hensel, and William E. Campbell</i> 1)The Power of Undergraduate Research — <i>William E. Campbell</i> 2)Online Education and the Need for Undergraduate Research —<i>Jennifer G. Coleman</i> 3)Online Undergraduate Research in Science, Technologiy, Engineering, and Mathmematics (STEM. Courses —<i>Emily K. Faulconer</i> 4)How to Incorporate Undergraduate Online Research in a Cross-Listed, Combined Undergraduate/Graduate Humanities and Social Science Course — <i>Lydia Huerta Moreno</i> 5)Online Undergradute Research in Behavioral Sciences —<i>Jennifer G/ Coleman and Lee William Daffin, Jr.</i> 6)Undergraduate Research and Online History Courses —<i>Andrew S. Hernández III</i> 7)Conducting Undergraduate Research in Business in the Online Environment —<i>Julio C. Rivera</i> 8)How Action Research Builds Confidence in Online Early Childhood Education Students —<i>Julianne Zvalo-Martyn</i> 9)Online Undergraduate Research in Health Professions —<i>Lori L. Finn</i> 10)Designing an Asynchronous Online Capstone Research Project. Public Policy, Community Evaluation, and the Interplanetary Initiative —<i>Margaretha Bentley</i> 11)From Observer to Active Participant. Transitioning the Identity of Undergraduate Online Research Students —<i>Tami Lincoln</i> 12)"What We Know Must Be". Undergraduate Research in an Online Shakespeare Course —<i>Laura Grace Godwin and David A. Saloman</i> 13)Fostering Relationships and Communicating Effectively. Technological Tools Necessary to Support Undergraduate Research in Virtual Environments —<i>Nicole Nicholson</i> 14)Virtual Showcases of Student Research/Creativity —<i>Shauna Reily and Samantha Langley-Turnbaugh</i> 15)Turning "Limitations" into Opportunities. Online and Unbound —<i>Kevin Ostoyich, Kari-Anne Innes, and Rebecca Ostoyich</i> 16)Virtualizing Undergraduate Research in the Geosciences. Freely Available Geospatial Data Resources and Strategies for Their Use —<i>Jeffrey G. Ryan</i> 17)Triage, Transition, and Transformation. How the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR. Adapted and Evolved in a COVID-19 World —<i>Lindsay Currie and Heather Wakefield</i> 18)Pandemic Responses and Insights — <i>Tim Usher, Andrew V. Nguyen, Jamie Buettner, and Joel Blaxland</i> Afterword —<i>Nancy H. Hensel</i> Editor and Contributor Biographies Index</p>