Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?

The University of Oxford and OCLC Research, in partnership with the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, are collaborating on a JISC-funded study to investigate the theory of digital residents and visitors with students in the educational stages: Emerging (Late stage secondary school-first year undergraduate); Establishing (Second/third year undergraduate); Embedding (Postgraduates, PhD students); and Experienced (Scholars).

This work will increase understanding of how learners engage with the Web and how educational services and systems can attract and sustain a possible new group of lifelong learners. The trans-Atlantic partnership will support comparison of students' digital learning strategies in different cultural contexts. Further details...

Outputs currently available

JISC Interim Report

22 July 2011 (.pdf: 560K/13 pp.)

Presentations

• Lynn Silipigni Connaway, David White, and Donna Lanclos
  Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment? (.pptx: 4.4MB/40 slides)
  ASIS&T 2011 Annual Meeting October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
• Lynn Silipigni Connaway, David White, and Donna Lanclos
  Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment? (.ppt: 2.4MB/19 slides)
  JISC Usability Meeting, 1 June 2011, London (UK)

Publications

• Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, David White and Donna Lanclos. 2012. "Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment" Forthcoming in Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
  The paper proposal is available.
• Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, David S. White, and Donna Lanclos. 2011. "Visitors and Residents: What motivates engagement with the digital information environment?" Proceedings of the 74th ASIS&T Annual Meeting 48: 1-7.
• White, David S., and Alison Le Cornu. 2011. "Visitors and Residents: A New Typology for Online Engagement." First Monday 16,9 (5 September). Available online at: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3171/3049.

Blog Posts

• Lanclos, Donna M. Information Literacy and deciding what is "good". 25 August 2011.
• White, David. Visitors & Residents: The Video. 14 October 2009.

JISC is a UK organization supporting the innovative use of digital technologies in UK colleges and universities.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk

JISC project page for the Visitors and Residents project
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/projects/visitorsandresidents.aspx

The project plan for Digital Visitors and Residents is available (.pdf: 122K/14 pp.).

Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) is an e-learning research and development team based at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education. Established in 1996, TALL specializes in developing high quality online courses for the Higher Education sector.

• Home page: http://www.tall.ox.ac.uk/
• Blog: http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2008/07/23/not-natives-immigrants-but-visitors-residents/.

Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Timothy J. Dickey. 2010. The digital information seeker report of the findings from selected OCLC, RIN, and JISC user behaviour projects. [Bristol, England]: HEFCE.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/digitalinformationseekerreport.pdf
(.pdf: 2.25MB/61 pp.).

The LAIRAH Project: Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/LAIRAH/

J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
http://library.uncc.edu

• Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC (co-lead)
• David White, Manager and Researcher, University of Oxford Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) team (co-lead)
• Donna M. Lanclos, Ph.D., Library Ethnographer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Jeremy Browning, Senior Software Engineer, OCLC Research
• Alison Le Cornu, Ph.D., Research Assistant, University of Oxford

Co-leads:

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC

David White, Manager and Researcher, University of Oxford Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) team

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