Does technology enhance research processes in online reading and

decision making practices?

sarra.powell@liverpool.ac.ukSarra Saffron Powell

Educational Development

Online reading practices and decision making processes in expert (PhD

student) readers

Shifting focus/research context

ALT 2012 technologies rather than findings (to follow)

• We know reader read differently online/print based modes

• “Switch modes” – when and why/impact• Little know about online decision making

processes• Sustainable models – resource development

student development

Methodology (phenomenological)

Online Research task (40 mins)

Hooey software

Participant Survey (n=50)

Echo Livescribe digital pen

(written/audio logs)

synchronous

Semi structured interviews (n=6)

Literature review

Adapted from a 28 item information literacy self-efficacy scale, ILSES Kurbanoglu et al, (2006)

• Demographic data • Relationship self-efficacy impacts process

(decision making) and performance (reading practices)?

• What sort of self beliefs expert readers hold?

Online survey

Research task“It is important for an early career researcher to establish and develop an online identity.”

Please find relevant evidence to substantiate or refute this claim

You have 40 minutes for this task

Use the prompt sheet and the digital pen to record your decision making processes as you work

Please try and be as explicit as possible in recording what influenced your decisions

Prompts

Please try and describe your strategies and record them

Please describe why you chose/do not chose particular sites

Please describe how you read online

Please identify any points that you would usually print out material

Hooey software

Web print tracking

Livescribe pen

Searchable PDFsExports to word

Email PDF with audio

Synchronous data capture?

Synchronous data capture - ish

Work around: problem with PDFs “send to printer”(date, time, title)

Screen grab printer list

A breakthrough in transcription technology?!

Nvivo 9

costEcho Livescribe digital pen 8mb £100.00

Echo Livesribe recording earphones £27.00

Digital notebooks £5.00

Dragon Nuanced Naturally Speaking Special Edition

£110.00

Mic set headphones institutional

Hooey software free

Nvivo 9 institutional

Technologies costings

Questions?

Thanks for listening

• Cull B., (2011) Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implication for academe, First Monday, 16 (6), http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3340/2985

• Kurbanoglu, S.S., Akkoyunlu, B., & Umay, A., (2006) Developing the information

literacy self-efficacy scale, Journal of Documentation, 62:6, 730-743 • Lea, M. R., & Jones, S., (2010) Digital literacies in higher education: exploring

textual and technological practice, Studies in Higher Education, 36:4, 377-393, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03075071003664021

• Liu Z., (2005) "Reading behavior in the digital environment: Changes in reading behavior over the past ten years", Journal of Documentation, 61: 6, 700 –712 http://www.emeraldinsight.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/journals.htm?issn=0022-0418&volume=61&issue=6&articleid=1529390&show=html&PHPSESSID=u1knkg7oi28vfoook4kmjm8eo1

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