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Using resources across educational digital libraries

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This article reports on analyses of usage and design activities by users of the Instructional Architect (IA), an end-user authoring tool designed to support easy access to and use of NSDL and online resources in creating instructional materials. This analysis provides a unique window for understanding how users use resources from multiple digital libraries, and the related issues of resource granularity and context dependence. Analyses suggest that active use and design with online resources is relegated to 'early adopters'. These users designed significantly more instructional projects with more content and more online resources than less-active users. Users in general appeared to value digital library resources, and at a smaller granularity than cataloged.

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JCDL '06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
June 2006
402 pages
ISBN:1595933549
DOI:10.1145/1141753
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Published: 11 June 2006

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  1. educational digital libraries
  2. empirical studies
  3. reuse

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JCDL06: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006
June 11 - 15, 2006
NC, Chapel Hill, USA

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