https://cgscholar.com/posts/204?communityId=134" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">course content so you get a sense of upcoming ideas. don’t feel constrained to explore concepts introduced early in the course. Or explore a related theory or concept of your own choosing that is relevant to the course themes. We recommend choosing a cutting edge area of innovation or one of education’s “wicked problems” which has presented a longtime challenge. Choose something that is of genuine interest and concern to you because you will be working with this topic for whole course. Feel free to allow your topic to evolve—it might become more specific or more general as you work through your updates and draft the work itself, or it might even change completely. We like the idea that learning is a journey of discovery, so go with the flow! The best outcome at the end of the course will that you see things differently than you did at the beginning.

Organization of the Project Report

We don't want to be prescriptive about the structure, but following is a suggestion. However, please don’t use these boilerplate headings. Make them specific to your chosen topic, for instance: “Introduction: Addressing the Challenge of Learner Differences”; “The Theory of Differentiated Instruction”; “Lessons from the Research: Differentiated Instruction in Practice”; “Analyzing the Future of Differentiated Instruction in the Era of Artificial Intelligence;” “Conclusions: Challenges and Prospects for Differentiated Instruction.”

Part 1: Introduction/Background

Introduce your topic. Why is this topic important? What brings you to it? What are the main dimensions of the topic? Where in the research literature and other sources do you need to go to address this topic?

Part 2: Educational Theory/Concepts

What is the educational theory that addresses your topic? Who are the main writers or advocates? Who are their critics, and what do they say? Your work must be in the form of an exegesis of the relevant scholarly literature that addresses and cites at least 6 scholarly sources (peer-reviewed journal articles or scholarly books).

Part 3 – Educational Practice/Application

You will present an educational practice example, or an ensemble of practices, as applied in clearly specified learning contexts. This could be a reflection practice in which you have been involved, one you have read about in the scholarly literature, or a new or unfamiliar practice which you would like to explore. What problem were they trying to solve? What were the implementers or researchers hoping to achieve and/or learn from implementing this practice? What was the context of the implementation - who, when, where, etc. What were the findings? What were the outcome ands impacts? What conclusions can be drawn? There is not a minimum number of scholarly sources, 6 more scholarly sources in addition to those for section 2 is a reasonable target.

Part 4: Analysis/Discussion. How does the practice that you have analyzed in this section of your work connect with the theory that you analyzed on the previous section? Does the practice fulfill the promise of the theory? What are its limitations? What are its unrealized potentials? What is your overall interpretation of the educational challenges and possible solutions you have been addressing? Are these ideals and purposes hard, easy, too easy, or too hard to realize? What would you recommend as a way forward? What needs more thinking in theory and research of practice?

References

We recommend the APA author-date in-text referencing style but don't insist on that in case you are working in discipline with different referencing conventions. Optionally, the CyberScholar citation tool.

Overall Project Length – At least 3000 words

Media: Include at least 5 media elements, such as images, diagrams, infographics, tables, embedded videos, (either uploaded into CyberScholar, or embedded from other sites), web links, PDFs, datasets, or other digital media. Be sure these are well integrated into your work. Explain or discuss each media item in the text of your work. If a video is more than a few minutes long, in your text refer to specific points with time codes or the particular aspects of the media object that you want your readers to focus on. Caption each item sourced from the web with a link. You don’t need to include media in the references list – this should be mainly for formal publications such as peer reviewed journal articles and scholarly monographs.

AI and Peer Review: Follow the project task design in CyberScholar

Assessment: Review the AI, peer, and instructor assessment rubric in CyberScholar

Develop a Peer and AI Reviewed Project Report