Are Course Pages Useful? Getting Beyond Implementation and Usability

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Sharrar, Grace
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • Academic Librarians have been creating research guides since the 1950s. These resources were design to help patrons become familiar with the basics of a subject or discipline. Research guides evolved into course pages, which provide resources related to a single course. This study considers students’ perceptions, and how that effects their intent to use the course page in the future. The study seeks to answer the question, does students’ perception of usefulness, interactivity, ease-of-use, attitude, and satisfaction effect their intention to use course pages? The method used for this study is adapted from the Technology Acceptance Model which looks for correlations between perceived usefulness, interactivity, ease-of-use, attitude, satisfaction, and intention to use. 47 undergraduate students from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, responded to an online survey. These findings will help determine if student perceptions match the findings from previous studies regarding the usability and implementation of course pages.
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  • Haefele, Chad
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • Library and Information Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2017
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