Funding

   

The Dissemination of Calibrated Peer Review: An On-line, Multidisciplinary, Writing-to-learn Instructional Tool (Second-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
	Orville L. Chapman, UCLA
CAMPUSES:
	UCLA, UCR
DESCRIPTION:
	Pedagogical Goal: Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) achieves many important educational objectives. Not only do students understand more deeply when they write about what they are learning, the evaluation process of CPR requires that they develop higher-order, critical-thinking skills. Strategy: TA-graded writing assignments are simply not a viable instructional option in the large classes (often over 200) that typify the sciences and engineering. CPR removes that grading barrier. The long-term goal is to introduce and institutionalize the use of CPR writing in the large lecture classes of Life Science and Engineering Ethics and Leadership at UCLA and in the large introductory and advanced courses in Chemistry at UCR.
FUNDING:
	Second-year Award
LINKS:
	Project URL: http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu > Second-year proposal > Read feature story about this project

 

Electronic Language Materials Archive (ELMA) (Second-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
	Maria Victoria Gonzalez Pagani, UCSC
CAMPUSES:
	UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCSB, UCSC
DESCRIPTION:
	Pedagogical Goal: ELMA's goal is to foster curricular innovation in UC Spanish and French language curricula through the incorporation of Content-based Instruction (CBI) materials, which seek to achieve language proficiency by shifting the focus from the learning of the language per se to the learning of the subject matter. While learning a subject matter, students acquire linguistic skills and simultaneously develop learning strategies. An electronic archive containing CBI materials for all proficiency levels in French and Spanish, to which the whole UC system could have access, will be instrumental in fostering curricular reform in those languages. Curricular reform in other languages could also be fostered by this initiative. Strategy: Funding will be applied to the testing and fine tuning of the database, intense re-purposing of existing electronic materials for submission to the archive as its base collection, designing a submission system, and establishing a review process for these submissions.
FUNDING:
	Second-year Award
LINKS:
	> Second-year proposal > First-year proposal > Read feature story about this project

 

Sacred Sites of Asia Instructional Resource (Second-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
	Barbara A. Holdrege, UCSB
CAMPUSES:
	UCB, UCR, UCSB, UCSD, University of Redlands, University of Sydney
DESCRIPTION:
	Pedagogical Goal: There is a need for geo-referenced tools in courses on religions and cultures of Asia that enable students to actively explore the complex layers of cultural issues in sacred sites. The website enables students to take guided journeys as virtual pilgrims traversing sacred sites in Asia, in which they discover multinodal and multilayered connections among various types of geohistorical data, such as patterns of historical development, pilgrimage routes, temple networks, regional variations in ritual practices, competing models of sacred space among different communities, and systems of religious and cultural exchange among sites. Strategy: To develop a georeferenced multimedia World Wide Web site for the study of sacred sites in Asia that will serve as an instructional resource for a range of UC courses on the religions and cultures of Asia. The long-term goal involves the development of thirty sacred site modules, which will be incorporated in seventeen courses taught by seven faculty at three UC campuses: six courses at UCSB, seven courses at UCSD, and four courses at UCR.
FUNDING:
	Second-year Award
LINKS:
	Project URL: http://members.cox.net/ronin8/cass > Second-year proposal > First-year proposal > Read feature story about this project

 

SIMSCOPE: Applications of simulated microscopy and video editing (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
	Paul De Ley, UCR
CAMPUSES:
	UCD, UCR
DESCRIPTION:
	Pedagogical Goal: Students in large introductory classes in the biological sciences have very limited opportunities to experiment with microscopes, because the campuses do not have enough quality equipment and specimens to go around. Strategy: Faculty will produce simulation video clips and/or CD-ROMs for use in their courses. Products include virtual microscopes and advanced microscopy exercises. A Virtual Lab for Cell Biology and Neuroscience will be developed to complement lab exercises. Faculty assisted by student assistants will serve as lead trainers for other faculty to use video editing software, so that others will have the skills to develop microscopy-based teaching tools.
FUNDING:
	First-year Award
LINKS:
	Project URL: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~pdeley/vCenema1/home.html > First-year proposal

 

Technology and Teacher Education in the University of California (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
	Willis Copeland, UCSB
CAMPUSES:
	UCB, UCD, UCI, UCR, UCSB, UCSD
DESCRIPTION:
	Pedagogical Goal: The Teacher Education Programs on six UC campuses seek funding to expand the use of teaching and learning technologies to meet UC's responsibility to educate K-12 teachers for California schools by sharing technology tools that have been developed independently by faculty on the various campuses. UC teacher education programs use electronic portfolios and on-line mediated discussions for teacher training, and yet these tools are customized for each campus and cannot be shared. Strategy: Work teams will assess the utility and adaptation of four of the tools for dissemination across the campuses involved in the project.
FUNDING:
	First-year Award
LINKS:
	> First-year proposal

 

UC Atlas of Global Inequality (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
	Ben Crow, UCSC
CAMPUSES:
	UCB, UCD, UCSC, UCSD, UCSF
DESCRIPTION:
	Pedagogical Goal: The objective of the Atlas is to allow users to examine global inequality and the impact of globalization through interactive presentations. Map, graphical and tabular presentations show and give students access to current data and information, and deepen student learning. The Web-based Atlas used in Sociology 15 at UCSC can represent economic and social data in a variety of ways. Collaborating campuses do not have the expertise and could benefit from using the Atlas for presentations in large lecture courses. Materials can be used in class lectures, in section, or by students on their own. Strategy: Dynamic and interactive presentations incorporating video, text, photos, audio, graphs, and maps will be used to bring economic and social data to life. The project will enhance the technical capabilities of the site, as well as expand the scope of the content. The project will be augmented for inter-campus use in stages over the course of one year. The multi-phased approach provides the opportunity to incorporate classroom feedback into later stages of the project's enhancement, as well as increase the content of the site.
FUNDING:
	First-year Award
LINKS:
	Project URL: www2.ucsc.edu/atlas > First-year proposal

 

UCWRITE: The University of California Writing Institute (Second-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
	Elizabeth Abrams, UCSC
CAMPUSES:
	UCB, UCD, UCLA, UCSB, UCSC
DESCRIPTION:
	Pedagogical Goal: Given the prospect of dramatic increases in enrollment in the coming years, there is a need to provide the tools to increase the effectiveness of writing instruction across the system. This project will: (1) create a location -- a password-protected portal -- where writing faculty systemwide can gather to discuss and develop pedagogy, engage in collaborative work, and share their experience of teaching in the separate campus writing programs; and (2) offer an overview of the writing requirements and expectations for college-level writing at UC campuses, and the writing resources available through the UC Writing Programs, to a broad set of interested audiences. Strategy: The team will continue developing the UCWRITE website initiated with TLtC funds in 2001-2002, by adding more materials, developing new sections, researching and implementing appropriate protocols for using existing writing-related databases, and researching and implementing modest automation for sections of the site that will continually need updating.
FUNDING:
	Second-year Award
LINKS:
	> http://ucwrite.org > Second-year proposal > First-year proposal > Read feature story about this project