J. Minguillón, E.P. Gil-Rodríguez, P. Rebaque-Rivas, M. Leg
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
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� Institutional repositories
� Methodology
� Survey design
� Results
� Conclusions
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� Three main goals: • Preservation • Dissemination • Positioning
� Created and maintained by librarians with the support of the IT department
� Not fully integrated into VLEs
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� UOC: online university created in 1994 • Virtual learning environment • Virtual library • Institutional repository: O2 (2009) � DSpace based � Some additional services (unused)
� > 50000 students, 2500 teachers
� ≈ 6000 documents, ≈ 4000000 downloads
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� Design-based research: • Observation: low usage of the IR repository • Goal: who is (not) using the IR and why?
� Mixed methods: • Qualitative: 15 in-depth interviews (8 teachers) • Quantitative: survey
� Technology Acceptance Model
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� Two basic questions: • IR awareness and usage • Main reasons
� Need/interest in additional services
� Population: UOC full-time and part-time teachers (2497)
� Sample: 550 answers (22.0%) è 3.69%
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� Gender, Age, Scientific discipline � 52 items (1-5 Likert scale):
• Institutional recognition • Incentives • Social image • Quality • Knowledge • Collaborative attitude
� IR knowledge, usage, web 2.0 services
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� Gender: 43.5% women, 56.5% men, similar IR knowledge (p = 0.186) but different usage (p = 0.028), more women have never used the IR
� No difference across ages
� STEM teachers use it more (p < 0.001)
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� Only 32.7% of the respondants were aware of the IR (CS department è 58.4%)
� Basic functionalities (agree/totally agree): • Choosing a license: 33.4% • Describing through metadata: 21.1% • Publishing resources: 17.2% • Advanced search: 12.8%
� Only 19.4% think the IR is usable
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� Only 2.8% access the IR through the VLE
� Web 2.0 services: • Adding comments to a resource (20.8%) • Ranking a resource (19.7%) • Sharing a resource (16.8%) • Favoriting a resource (15.7%) • Tagging a resource (8.8%) • Finding similar resources (4.9%)
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� Only 1 out of 3 teachers know about the IR
� Only 1 out of 9 teachers use it regularly
� Some “desired” web 2.0 services are barely used (ranking)
� Nevertheless, more integration within the VLE is desired
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� Study IR potential users � Adapt IR to different user profiles � Design a usable IR � Publicize the IR � Improve access to contents � Enrich and support user tasks � Provide help � Promote open access � Encourage self-archiving
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� Further survey analysis: • Structural Equation Modeling: intention è use • Clustering: teacher profiling
� Implementation and evaluation of some web 2.0 services
� Large scale survey (including students)
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� Project MAVSEL: mining, data analysis and visualization based in social aspects of e-learning
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