TY - JOUR
T1 - A DIY, Project-based Approach to Teaching Data Journalism
AU - Graham, Caroline
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - As a case study, this article will illustrate how a project-based approach has addressed some of the challenges of embedding data journalism content into courses at a small Australian university. It will also identify some of the associated limitations and difficulties. Since 2013, Bond journalism students have undertaken five collaborative data-driven investigations, with a sixth underway in 2018. The project-based approach encourages resilience, creative problem-solving and minimizes students’ aversion to maths and statistics while empowering students to produce industry-standard work in an area of inexperience and discomfort. However, it is a reasonably resource-intensive approach and would be difficult to replicate in a larger cohort.
AB - As a case study, this article will illustrate how a project-based approach has addressed some of the challenges of embedding data journalism content into courses at a small Australian university. It will also identify some of the associated limitations and difficulties. Since 2013, Bond journalism students have undertaken five collaborative data-driven investigations, with a sixth underway in 2018. The project-based approach encourages resilience, creative problem-solving and minimizes students’ aversion to maths and statistics while empowering students to produce industry-standard work in an area of inexperience and discomfort. However, it is a reasonably resource-intensive approach and would be difficult to replicate in a larger cohort.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047395415&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1326365X18768308
DO - 10.1177/1326365X18768308
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047395415
SN - 1326-365X
VL - 28
SP - 67
EP - 77
JO - Asia Pacific Media Educator
JF - Asia Pacific Media Educator
IS - 1
ER -