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You can lead a horse to water: teacher development and use of digital library resources

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This article presents findings from approximately 150 users who created instructional projects using educational digital library resources. One hundred of these users were teachers participating in professional development workshops on the topic of digital libraries. Our iterative approach to tool and workshop development and implementation was based on a framework that characterizes several input, output, and process variables affecting dissemination of such technologies in educational contexts. Data sources involved a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, including electronic surveys, interviews, participant observations, and server log file and artifact analyses. These multiple and complementary levels of analyses reveal that despite teachers reporting great value in learning resources and educational digital libraries, significant and lasting impact on teaching practice remains difficult to obtain.

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JCDL '05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
June 2005
450 pages
ISBN:1581138768
DOI:10.1145/1065385
  • General Chair:
  • Mary Marlino,
  • Program Chairs:
  • Tamara Sumner,
  • Frank Shipman
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