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During the fall, 1999, the Fellows undertook a national search for
learning technologies that satisfied a set of
criteria
in a variety of Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology
(SMET) disciplines and higher education environments. From this
search, a list of
40
candidate
institutions were investigated through short (1 hour), telephone
interviews using a common set of
interview questions.
From this long list, a short list of
candidates
were selected for an in-depth interview process.
From December through March 2000, these
case
studies
were conducted. For each study, a "key practitioner(s)" was
interviewed at length along with up to another 20 individuals
(colleagues, students, administrators, department chairs, technical
support staff, etc.) associated with the key practitioner. In
addition, when possible, class and laboratory meetings were observed.
All interviews followed
protocols
which provided guidelines for the interview but did not limit the
interview to a set of choreographed topics; i.e., oftentimes,
significant insights are seen outside the box described by the
protocols. All interviews were tape recorded and the tapes
transcribed.
The transcripts were analyzed using a set of classification
codes
developed by the team of Fellows. This set of codes provided a
methodology to analyze these voluminous studies (again, some of the
cases involved as much as 20 hours of tape recordings) using two
software programs (NVIVO and Nudist
both from QSR).
From these analyses, the cases studies were organized along a set of
major themes and are presented on this website.
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