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

Contact:

jminguillona@uoc.edu Twitter/@jminguillona

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