Preface
Gwen Garrison
This glossary came about as part of a graduate course in Data Management and Governance at Claremont Graduate University. I taught the course during the Fall semester of 2021 when most educational settings were in emergency remote learning status. As the instructor, I took advantage of asynchronous learning strategies to develop the concept, deploy, and refine the learning activity that took place over the entire semester.
Why this Learning Strategy:
My pedagogical practice and commitment seek to promote agency, equity, and respect for a generative learning community among the graduate students. This activity flows from these commitments and empowers students to build a co-creative learning space.
How it Worked:
The graduate students of this program have many years of professional experience and understand the value of professional jargon to demonstrate field knowledge and expertise. Each week, a ‘lead’ student who read ahead in the weekly assignments, chose three terms, and craft their own definition of what the word meant using what was learned in class and from their own experiences. Then, for one week, their classmates would provide comments for refinement and clarification. The ‘leader’ would then synthesize the feedback from their classmates and instructor, and produce a new definition used in this publication.
Acknowledgements:
I am deeply grateful to three students, Kolby Rousseve (lead editor), Nancy LePage, and Emily Hires, who provided masterful technical assistance, shepherding all revisions and online processes. I am also indebted to Jennifer Beamer, from The Claremont Colleges Library staff, whose expertise and enthusiasm in online access scholarship really propelled the work from an idea to a student publication.
Finally, the heart and soul of this work comes from the students themselves. What a pleasure to work with each, and every one of them.
Gwen Garrison, PhD,
Clinical Professor
April 2022
Here’s the publication’s citation:
Diaz, G., Hires, E., Jawaharlal, L. T., Le, K., Lopez, G., Nguyen, K., Ruiz-Sundstrom, M., and Shubily, A. (2021). Data management and governance glossary: A Claremont Graduate University EDUC 448 Fall 2021 publication. (K Rousseve, Ed.). Claremont, CA: The Claremont Colleges Library. Available from https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/eddatamangov/
