Teaching Serendipity
Date Created
6-14-2016
Abstract
Faculty and librarians can collaborate to create academic learning environments where serendipity is more likely to happen and where students see possibilities in the chance encounters that they have. Teaching serendipity includes designing research courses that provide students with disciplinary frameworks through which to recognize, activate, and manage the layers of inquiry. A pedagogy that "courts serendipity" makes room for chance and shows students how to capitalize on the possibility of chaos. In addition, faculty and librarians are called on to talk about research as part of a larger conversation, and a recursive, process, rather than a step-wise march to completion. Teaching serendipity can be incorporated through multiple ways-of-doing within academic situations: those that call for empirical inquiry, problem-solving, and research from sources.
Publication Title
Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age
Document Type
Book Chapter
First Page
27
Last Page
51
Digital Origin
Born digital
Publisher
Chandos Publishing/Elsevier
Recommended Citation
Nutefall, Jennifer and Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell, "Teaching Serendipity" (2016). University Libraries Faculty Publications. 109.
https://digscholarship.unco.edu/libfacpub/109
