Engineering Librarians as Partners of Faculty in Teaching Scholarly Inquiry to Undergraduate Students through Curriculum Integration: The Biotextiles Product Development Course Blog

摘要

Group projects are frequently utilized in undergraduate course curricula at the NC State University College of Textiles to achieve a number of different learning objectives. WordPress blogs are one of the many Web 2.0 components that can be used by librarians in collaboration with faculty to enhance their students group learning processes. A WordPress blog is a web communication and collaboration tool that can be utilized to engage students in learning with others within a collaborative environment. This paper presents a case study of blog use within an undergraduate textiles engineering course curriculum that was the developed through a collaborative librarian-faculty partnership and examines literature on blog use in undergraduate education.