Folks:

I admit it.  I had an ulterior motive for producing the East Carolina University online project journal.  In addition to introducing this particular group of students and the training they received in underwater archaeology to the world I had a question I wanted to answer.  Does any of this stuff matter?  Is anyone impacted by seeing this stuff online?

It’s a tough question.  One does not necessarily want to face the fact that despite all the hard work, in the end it may have been a pointless exercise.  As part of a scholarship of teaching and learning project (or SoTL as it’s practitioners call it) for a graduate class at George Mason University I decided to study whether or not doing an online project journal actually did what I hoped it might, namely encourage underwater archaeologists to publish the results of their research online.  I wanted to see if there was any change in the students, their professors, the audience, and lastly me.  To that end I interviewed the students and professors and conducted a survey of the audience.  

The results of this project are now incorporated into the project journal which is now in its final few weeks.  I created a page discussing my findings that includes short video segments from my interviews with the students and faculty.  I also included the related portion of the survey results.  To visit the project journal click the “Learning Assessment” link in the left side navigation bar.  

In a way I consider this to be an ongoing learning experience for me.  I would welcome comments on the page from all the different members of this audience.   Here is the link to the Journal:  http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/project_journals/pj.html

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Since much of the recent survey pertained to other areas of the website I have also included some of the comments we received on the blog portion of our site.  Those can be viewed here:  http://kurt.blogs.com/

Thanks to all who responded

Best regards,

T Kurt Knoerl
Managing Director
The Museum of Underwater Archaeology

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