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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Meyer, Katrina A.; McNeal, Larry – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
Faculty and staff are participating in blogs and online discussions in greater numbers, but this involvement is poorly understood. This study used content analysis to evaluate 40 online discussions hosted on "The Chronicle of Higher Education" website. The majority (n = 22) of discussions had as their main topics the personal and professional…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Content Analysis, Evaluation
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Meyer, Katrina A. – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
Adult, professional students in a doctoral-level course used Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, blogs, and online discussions to develop answers to six "Big Questions" related to higher education finance and also produced a research paper that used original data or the research literature to improve understanding of a specific topic. At the close of the…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Web Sites, Graduate Students, Educational Finance
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Meyer, Katrina A. – Internet and Higher Education, 2008
This research investigated the availability of information on higher education institutions through the web sites of 40 higher education institutions; 10 each from Doctoral/Research, Master's, Baccalaureate, and Community Colleges drawn from 40 different states. This descriptive study answered two research questions: (1) How accessible is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Legislators, Internet, Web Sites
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Meyer, Katrina A.; Xu, Yonghong Jade – Internet and Higher Education, 2007
This study answered questions about which faculty come to use technology in their teaching and used a novel statistical analysis to develop a model that captures the primary factors influencing faculty technology use. It used a sample of 16,914 faculty within the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty to explore explanations for faculty…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Technology, Bayesian Statistics, College Faculty
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Xu, Yonghong; Meyer, Katrina A. – Internet and Higher Education, 2007
This study examines factors related to technology use in teaching by university faculty. An EFA analysis of multiple questions of technology use in the classroom found two factors: one loaded with Web use and the second with email use. Therefore, three research questions were asked: What factors explain faculty use of the Web or email? Are these…
Descriptors: Productivity, Internet, College Faculty, Computer Uses in Education