Learning About Your Digital Collection From Users

NSDL Brown Bag Presentation on Learning About Your Digital Collection From Users. Thursday December, 16. Onlineunpublishednot peer reviewe

Factors Affecting the Adoption of Faculty-Developed Academic Software: A Study of Five iCampus Projects

Instruction in higher education must adapt more rapidly to: changes in workforce needs, global issues, advances in disciplines, and resource constraints. The pace of such improvement depends on the speed with which new ideas and materials are adopted across institutions. In 1999 Microsoft pledged $25 million and staff support for iCampus, a seven-year MIT project to develop pioneering uses of educational technology. The TLT Group studied five iCampus projects in order to identify factors affecting institutionalization and widespread dissemination. Among the factors impeding adoption: lack of rewards and support for faculty to adopt innovations; faculty isolation; and a lack of attention to adoption issues among projects selected for funding. The study made recommendations for universities, foundations, government agencies and corporations: 1) continue making education more authentic, active, collaborative, and feedback-rich; 2) create demand to adopt ideas and materials from other sources by encouraging all faculty members to improve and document learning in their programs, year after year; 3) nurture coalitions for instructional improvement, across and within institutions; 4) create more effective higher education corporate alliances; and 5) improve institutional services to support faculty in educational design, software development, assessment methods, formative evaluation, and/or in sharing ideas with others who teach comparable courses

Evaluating Faculty and Student Use of Digital Resources for Teaching and Learning

A survey of research methods used to study student and faculty use of digital libraries and digital resources across a number of related studies.National Science Foundation DUE 1049537 & 1049531not peer reviewe

MERLOT: A Model for User Involvement in Digital Library Design and Implementation

MERLOT is an international consortium comprised of over 20 institutions and systems of higher education and industry partners who collaborate to produce a premier online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share online learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT's mission is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by expanding the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty-designed courses. Created in 1997 by the California State University, in 1999 MERLOT expanded by inviting other partners to participate in creating and implementing MERLOT as a free, Web-based resource for higher education. MERLOT emphasizes both the quality and review of materials as well as services for the broad community it serves. MERLOT's partners are integral to the functioning of MERLOT and its services, from initial design and testing to deployment and management

Technical Report: Results From the Study: Student Use of Digital Learning Materials: implications for the NSDL

Summary of results of study into how students use and learn from digital learning resources and collections of learning resourcesNational Science Foundation Grant DUE 1049537Ope

How Students Navigate, Use & Learn From Digital Resources

Poster at Educause Annual Conference 2013 on a study exploring how students use digital learning resourcesNational Science Foundation Grant DUE 1049537Ope

Survey on Student Use of Digital Resources & Learning

Survey instrument to assess student use of digital resourcesNational Science Foundation grant DUE 1059537Ope

Evaluating Digital Libraries with User Panels

In this paper, we describe User Panels as a method for evaluating digital libraries. User Panels have a history of use in medical research and more recently with marketing research. The method is longitudinal in nature, allowing for study of behaviors and attitudes over time. This paper was developed for the JCDL 2009 workshop: User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians. Categories and Subject Descriptor