From: "EDUCAUSE" <educause@educause.edu>Date: November 29, 2011 11:05:17 AM ESTSubject: ECAR Bulletin: A Field Study of Student Use of ITReply-To: educause@educause.eduIf this e-mail message does not display correctly or hyperlinks are missing, please view our online version.
Research Bulletin November 29, 2011
ATTENTION: A new research bulletin is now available
from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied ResearchHow Are Students Actually Using IT? An Ethnographic Study
by Christopher J. Cooley, Thomas Malaby, and David StackAbstract: This ECAR research bulletin describes an anthropological ethnographic analysis of student practices relating to the use of information technology on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) campus. Using EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) studies as benchmarks, this imaginative research examines learning management system usage and satisfaction, student ownership and use of technology devices (especially mobile devices), and where on campus students choose to compute. Field data for the project were collected from four sources: notes on participant observation of student practices, unstructured interviews with a selection of technology users, an online survey for enrolled students, and the shadowing of consenting students while they were on campus.
Audiences: This research bulletin may prove particularly interesting to chief information officers, facilities directors, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, and students.
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