To create appropriate and effective tools and services it is vital that we understand how people within the univerity are using technology and what their requirements are within the contexts that they operate. This section will describe how we have designed our research tools to collectt his information and share data that has been collected.

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Research Projects

Connecting technology and university teaching

• Web link: ["CRT.Report.Connecting technology and university teaching"]
• Start date: May 2006
• End date: September 2006
• Main contact(s): Kate Lindsay
• Tagline: to understand how to effectively support technology enhanced learning in HE we first have to understand how technology usage relates to the experiences and perceptions of university teaching.
• Research methods: Indepth interviews, case-study, literature review
• Keywords: interviews, teaching, effective, learning, innovation, strategy, training

User Profiling

Research techniques

The CRT aims to use a range of qualitative and quantitative research techniques.

Research Strategies

The ‘research strategy’ is the logic by which a study intends to proceed in order to answer its research questions. Some research strategies are:

• ["CRT Case Study Guidelines"]
• ["CRT Surveying Guidelines"]
• ["CRT Evaluation Guidelines"]

Research tools

The 'research tools' are the methods that are used to collect data. These include:

*["CRT.Interviews"]

*["CRT.Questionnaires"]

Analysis

• Interview Analysis

• Questionnaire analysis

Requirements Gathering

Requirements gathering may utilise any of the above research methods, however in the case of prototyping we will demonstrate some specific processes and techniques we have used.

• Reading Lists Project

Data Store

The CRT will document and store the output from the research activities in this section.

Interview summaries

The CRT maintains a repository of interview sumaries. This provides qualitative information that will help service providers and designers understand how technology fits within the everyday life of the end user.

Go to the interview summaries.

Survey data

The CRT will design and conduct a number of general and project specific surveys. We will also collate results from other surveys conducted by other related groups (local and national).

Survey data can be used to give more generalizable descriptive information about a larger group of people.

Go to the CRT.survey data.