EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Surveys

Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education

ckeller — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:51:48 -0500

Ithaka's 2006 survey of faculty members sought to determine their attitudes related to online resources, electronic archiving, teaching and learning and related subjects. This study affords the opportunity to develop trend analysis of many measurements collected in the 2003 and 2000 faculty surveys. As in the past, Ithaka developed a robust set of disciplinary and other demographic analyses that have allowed them to learn more about how best to serve the needs of different types of faculty members. Findings include;

Attitudes towards the possibility of a transition away from print format, both for scholarly journals and monographs
Perceptions of libraries and their value, including specific library functions, and how these perceptions are changing
Preferences in research practices, including disciplinary differences and changes over time
Attitudes towards archiving of both print and electronic resources
Preferences that lead authors to choose among scholarly journals in which to publish their articles, as well as attitudes towards digital repositories

Colleges serious about dealing with copyright, P2P issues

ckeller — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:55:23 -0600

"If you were responsible for a college's network and were faced with infringement notices from the recording and motion picture industries, how would you handle them? That's the question Elliot Kendall, network security architect at Brandeis University, faced. He decided to ask his peers how they handled P2P traffic on campus networks, as well as DMCA takedown notices and prelitigation settlement letters."

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World: A Report to the OCLC Membership

ckeller — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:11:59 -0500

The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common ground—shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location—is as old as human societies, but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on the Web. This OCLC membership report explores this web of social participation and cooperation on the Internet and how it may impact the library’s role, including:

The use of social networking, social media, commercial and library services on the Web
How and what users and librarians share on the Web and their attitudes toward related privacy issues
Opinions on privacy online
Libraries’ current and future roles in social networking

The report is based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC) of the general public from six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and of library directors from the U.S. The research provides insights into the values and social-networking habits of library users.

Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005

drupal — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:17:11 -0500

Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005 represents the third annual report on the state of online education in U.S. Higher Education. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and based on responses from over 1,000 colleges and universities, this year's study, like those for previous years', is aimed at answering some of the fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education.
Among the key findings:
* Sixty-three percent of schools offering undergraduate face-to face courses also offer undergraduate courses online.
* Among all schools offering face-to-face Master's degree programs, 44% also offer Master's programs online.
* Sixty-five percent of higher education institutions report that they are using primarily core faculty to teach their online courses compared to 62% that report they are using primarily core faculty to teach their face-to-face courses.
* The overall percent of schools identifying online education as a critical long-term strategy grew from 49% in 2003 to 56% in 2005.
* Overall online enrollment increased from 1.98 million in 2003 to 2.35 million in 2004.
* Although online education continues to penetrate into all types of institutions, a relatively stable minority of Chief Academic Officers (28% in 2003 compared with 31% in 2005) continue to believe that their faculty fully accept the value and legitimacy of online education.

Networking, Not Politics

drupal — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:05:15 -0500

A new study by an assistant professor of communications and sociology at Northwestern University attempts to identify what today's college students spend most of their time online doing. Based on her survey of more than 1,300 students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Eszter Hargittai said that a number of common assumptions about students and the Internet turned out to be wrong. Most notably, the notion that college students follow politics online, and on blogs specifically, was not born out by Hargittai's study. Although about one-third of respondents said they have their own blogs, very few write about politics. Similarly small numbers of students visit political blogs. Social sites, on the other hand, draw considerable numbers of students. Fifty-one percent of respondents said they have visited MySpace, and 78 percent have visited Facebook. Students also reportedusing the Web for research, to download music, or to read news.

College Students' Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources

drupal — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:36:32 -0500

College Students' Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources examines the information-seeking habits and preferences of international college students. This report is a companion piece to the December 2005 OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources report.

Administrative Compensation Responding Institutions 2004-05

drupal — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:18:08 -0500

The CUPA-HR administrative compensation survey provides comprehensive and up-to-date salary data for college and university administrators.

Mid-Level Salary Survey 2004-05 Executive Summary

drupal — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:24:50 -0500

The CUPA-HR Mid-Level Executive Summary provides comprehensive and up-to-date salary data for higher education mid-level administrator s and and professionals.

Academic Institutional Repositories: Deployment Status in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005

drupal — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:43:57 -0500

This survey and article give an early view of international institutional repository infrastructure for scholarship and scholarly communication.

Developing Digital Preservation Programs: the Cornell Survey of Institutional Readiness, 2003-2005

drupal — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:32:49 -0500

In 2003, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Cornell University Library a grant to develop a digital preservation management training program, consisting of intensive weeklong workshops and the creation of an online tutorial. In 2005, NEH provided a second grant to continue the program through 2006. Seven workshops have been held, reaching 164 individuals from 110 institutions. Prior to each workshop, participants were asked to complete an online survey designed to assess their institution's readiness to develop and maintain a digital preservation program. This article reports on the aggregate findings from this survey and offers comparisons where possible to RLG's 1998 survey on the status of digital archiving in its member institutions.