The Ivy Project: A Case Study of Student-Generated Courseware

Dorothee Kocks and Steven Park
University of Utah
http://www.hum.utah.edu/Ivy/index3.htm

In University of Utah's History 465, students created a multimedia museum of the modern American West in just ten weeks. The goal of this ambitious project, funded in part through internal teaching grants, was to teach by doing. The main successes of the project were: countering technophobia among diehard Humanities students; realizing (not just theorizing) some new narrative forms feasible with multimedia authoring tools; offering perspective on traditional, "textbook" narratives of the West via a student-researched and student-written text; and linking personal experience with large-scale historical trends.