Environmental scan of use and users of digital resources: Humanities & Social Sciences

Why study users? An environmental scan of use and users of digital resources in humanities and social sciences undergraduate education by Diane Harley.
From the abstract:
This article presents an overview of a two-year study [1] that (1) mapped the universe of digital resources available to undergraduate educators in the humanities and social sciences (H/SS); and, (2) examined how a better understanding of the variation in use and users can benefit the integration of these resources into undergraduate teaching. Our results suggest that faculty use a vast array of online materials from both educational and “non-educational” sources, but many do not use digital resources for a host of reasons including the lack of direct relevance to their preferred pedagogical approaches, and insufficient time and classroom resources. Our discussions with digital resource providers confirmed that an understanding of the actual use of their resources in undergraduate settings is often murky
Diane Harley, Ph.D., the Principal Investigator of this project, is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley. She directs the Higher Education in the Digital Age (HEDA) Project.
Source: First Monday
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