E-mail2010 Sakai Multi-Institutional Survey Initiative
 | Core Survey Items Now Available! Click here to see the Instructor "Core" Survey Items Remember that each institution is encouraged to use all of the core survey items, but please edit/add/remove as appropriate for your local needs. Additional survey items may continue to be suggested at the bottom of both wiki pages. |
MISI, or the Multi-Institutional Survey Initiative, is an endeavor among Sakai institutions to ask similar questions of instructors and students across Sakai implementations. Through this initiative, we hope to be build on the successful 2009 effort to compare and contrast similarities and differences between institutions as well as provide feedback to improve Sakai development in the future.
In order to accurately compare institutions, it is important to use the same survey question as much as possible. To that end, the participating institutions have been working hard to arrive at a set of shared "core" survey items that will be used across institutions. The 2010 effort will build upon the survey items for the 2009 survey (see the instructor and student survey items).
Participation is voluntary. Each institution is responsible for obtaining human subjects approval (IRB) to conduct research, if required. Furthermore, institutions are encouraged, but not required or mandated to use the "core" set of survey questions or share them with the initiative. Michigan has offered to analyze the combined 2010 quantitative dataset. To limit variability, participating institutions are encouraged to administer their surveys online between April-June 2010.
(As an example, here is a copy of the Texas State IRB Request for Exemption from last year.)
If you are interested in participating, please add your information to the table below. Our first meeting will take place online in January 2010:
| Institution |
Contact Name(s) |
Contact Email(s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | Steve Lonn | slonn@umich.edu | |
| Rice University | Angela Rabuck | adehart@rice.edu | |
| University of Delaware | Mathieu Plourde Dick Sacher |
mathieu@udel.edu dsacher@udel.edu |
|
| Indiana University |
Rita Pavolka |
pavolka@indiana.edu |
|
| Université Pierre et Marie Curie | Jean-François Lévêque | jean-francois.leveque@upmc.fr | Survey will be done in French (Survey translation QA volunteer, Mathieu Plourde) |
| Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale |
Frédéric Dooremont | frederic.dooremont@univ-littoral.fr | |
| Texas State | Salwa Khan | sk16@txstate.edu | |
| Marist College | Brian Dashew | brian.dashew@marist.edu | |
| Rutgers University | Gayle Stein | gstein@rutgers.edu | |
| Virginia Tech | John Moore | jmoore1@vt.edu | |
| University of Virginia | Stephanie Conley & Yitna Firdyiwek | sbs8j@virginia.edu & ybf2u@virginia.edu | |
| Lourdes College | Susan Shelangoskie | sshelangoskie@lourdes.edu | |
| University of Hawai'i | Kenwrick Chan | kchan@hawaii.edu | |
| UNC - Chapel Hill |
Kim Eke |
kim_eke@unc.edu |
|
| Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary | Paul Gibbs | pgibbsjr@hotmail.com | |
| Nagoya University (Japan) | Shoji Kajita | kajita@nagoya-u.jp | |
| Daybreak School | Brian McCarthy | brian@daybreak.ie | |
| Universidad Politécnica de Valencia | Aristóteles Cañero | acanero@asic.upv.es | Survey will be done in Spanish. UPV will do the translation |
| Washington and Lee University | John Blackburn | BlackBlackburnJ@wlu.edu | |
| Johns Hopkins University | Brenda Knox , Rob Coyle & Charmaine Thompson | knox@jhu.edu, rcoyle@jhu.edu, charmaine@jhu.edu | |
| University of Applied Sciences of Bragança (Portugal) |
Paulo Alves |
palves@ipb.pt | Survey will be done in Portuguese. Will work with UFP on translation. |
| Danubius University of Galati (Romania) |
Severin Bumbaru |
severin.bumbaru@univ-danubius.ro | Survey will be done in Romanian. Danubius University will do the translation |
| Universidad de Guadalajara | Rafael Morales | rmorales@udgvirtual.udg.mx | |
| New York University (NYU) | Heather Stewart | heather@nyu.edu | |
| Universidade Fernando Pessoa | Feliz Gouveia & Luis Borges Gouveia | fribeiro@ufp.edu.pt & lmbg@ufp.edu.pt | Survey will be done in Portuguese. Will work with IPB on translation. |
| CEIPA, Institución Universitaria (Columbia) | Diego Mauricio Mazo Cuervo | diego.mazo@ceipa.edu.co | |
| College of the Redwoods | Maggie Lynch | maggie-lynch@redwoods.edu | |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Lisa Rothrauff |
lisa@media.berkeley.edu | |
| Sakai Foundation |
Pieter Hartsook |
hartsook@sakaifoundation.org | observing to keep up-to-date with MISI (will attend Wed) |
| Management Center Innsbruck |
Wolfgang Rohregger, Teresa Zangerl |
wolfgang.rohregger@mci.edu & teresa.zangerl@mci.edu |
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| University of Dayton | Jerry Timbrook | timbroje@notes.udayton.edu |
View 2010 MISI Participating Institutions in a larger map.
MISI FAQ
Q: Who Can Participate in MISI?
A: Any institution running Sakai 2.4 or higher in pilot or production. All levels, languages, and locations are invited to participate.
Q: Who Conducts the Survey?
A: Your institution will run its own online survey. In the past, institutions have used commercial applications (e.g., SurveyMonkey), home-grown systems, and self-coded surveys.
Q: Who Decides What Items Are On the Survey?
A: The collective group of participating institutions will decide on the items via email, conference calls, and Confluence wiki. Ultimately, each institution can decide to opt in/out of each "core" survey item, but are strongly encouraged to participate in order to maximize data collection.
Q: When Will Meetings Begin?
A: In mid-January 2010
Q: How is Survey Data Shared?
A: Anonymized data (not aggregated) is uploaded to a shared Sakai site. Michigan has volunteered to combine the data into one big spreadsheet and run an initial summary. Each participating institution may use the combined dataset to run their own analyses.
Q: When Should the Survey Be Administered?
A: In order to minimize variability, each participating institution is asked to administer their survey for 2-4 weeks in March, April, or May 2010.
Q: Where Can I Find Information About the 2009 MISI?
A: On this Confluence page
Comments (2)
Dec 15, 2009
Mathieu Plourde says:
Steve (or anyone who has done the survey last year), Could you share the propos...Steve (or anyone who has done the survey last year),
Could you share the proposal or letter of acceptance from your IRB so we can use them as templates as needed?
Feb 11
Salwa Khan says:
Mathieu, I've attached a copy of the Texas State exemption request on this page...Mathieu,
I've attached a copy of the Texas State exemption request on this page near the top. Hope it helps. Salwa