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We design and conduct research projects related to the use of educational technology at the University of Minnesota, often in collaboration with faculty and other staff members. We also conduct evaluations of DMC-sponsored programs, publish in peer-reviewed journals, and present at local, national, and international conferences.
In consultation with University of Minnesota, Twin Cities constituents, we distribute biannual technology surveys to University of Minnesota, Twin Cities faculty members and students and publish reports about the results.
In 2005 the University of Minnesota created the Fair Use Analysis (FUA) Tool, an interactive online application intended to educate users and foster defensible fair use assertions, in accordance with copyright law. With an interdisciplinary team, we compared participants' use of the tool with a control condition in iterative cycles.
Beginning in the fall of 2002, we worked with faculty members in the School of Nursing to collaboratively conduct a curriculum-level evaluation of three online nursing master's degree programs.
Beinning the spring of 2005, we partnered with several faculty members from the departments of philosophy, curriculum and instruction, and biology to explore educational technology best practices.
During the 2005–06 academic year, DMC staff members published an article in a peer-reviewed journal; were awarded grants; gave presentations at local, national, and international conferences; and appeared on TV shows.
