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:

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