NDLI: Automated approaches to characterizing educational digital library usage: linking computational methods with qualitative analyses

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Author	Maull, Keith E. Saldivar, Manuel Gerardo Sumner, Tamara
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The need for automatic methods capable of characterizing adoption and use has grown in operational digital libraries. This paper describes a computational method for producing two, inter-related, user typologies based on use diffusion. Furthermore, a case study is described that demonstrates the utility and applicability of the method: it is used to understand how middle and high school science teachers participating in an academic year-long field trial adopted and integrated digital library resources into their instructional planning and teaching. Use diffusion theory views technology adoption as a process that can lead to widely different patterns of use across a given population of potential users; these models use measures of frequency and variety to characterize and describe such usage patterns. By using computational techniques such as clickstream entropy and clustering, the method produces both coarse- and fine-grained user typologies. As a part of improving the initial coarse-grain typology, clickstream entropy improvements are described that aim at better separation of users. In addition, a fine-grained user typology is described that identifies five different types of teacher-users, including “interactive resource specialists” and “community seeker specialists.” This typology was validated through comparison with qualitative and quantitative data collected using traditional educational field research methods. Results indicate that qualitative analyses correlate with the computational results, suggesting automatic methods may prove an important tool in discovering valid usage characteristics and user types.
Starting Page	51
Ending Page	64
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14325012
Journal	International Journal on Digital Libraries
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14321300
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2012-07-29
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Technology adoption Diffusion of innovation Use diffusion models Educational digital libraries Information Systems and Communication Service Database Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences

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