[Siguse-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Report on Users and Uses of Digital Resources in Undergraduate Education

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

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Richard B. Hill
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From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition [mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:20 PM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Report on Users and Uses of Digital Resources in
Undergraduate Education

The report described below will, I think, be of considerable interest to
many CNI-annouce readers.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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We are please to announce the posting of our final report:
Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in
the Humanities and Social Sciences
Copies of the report are available at:
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/digitalresourcestudy/report/

Generous funding for this multi-year project was provided by the  A.W.
Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.  Additional
support was provided by CITRIS, Hewlett-Packard, CDL, and UC Berkeley Vice
Chancellor of Research.

Authors: Diane Harley, Ph.D., Principal Investigator; Jonathan Henke,
Shannon Lawrence, Ian Miller, Irene Perciali, Ph.D., and David Nasatir,
Ph.D.

The purpose of our research was to 1) map the universe of digital resources
available to a subset of undergraduate educators in the humanities and
social sciences, and 2) to investigate how and if available digital
resources are actually being used in undergraduate teaching environments. 
We employed multiple methods, including surveys and focus groups. Our
definition of digital resources is intentionally broad and includes rich
media objects (e.g., maps, video, images, etc.) as well as text.

Contents:
• Executive Summary 
• Introduction and Rationale for the Project 
• Understanding the Humanities/Social Science Digital Resource Landscape and
Where Users Fit Into It 
• How Are Digital Resources Being Used Among Diverse Communities? 
• Faculty Discussion Groups and Faculty Survey 
• Transaction Log Analysis and Website Surveys 
• Why Study Users? 
• Interviews with Digital Resource Providers 
• Site Owners and User Researchers Meeting 
• Conclusions 
• Bibliography 
• Appendices
Diane Harley, Ph.D.
Director, Higher Education in the Digital Age Project
Center for Studies in Higher Education,
University of California, Berkeley
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/people/dharley.htm