In my Research Analyst capacity at the University of California Davis School of Education until November 2003, I performed a web-based research study of Instructional Systems IS and Educational Technology EdTech Initiatives At US Carnegie One Universities. This was done through rigorous website visits to Carnegie Universities obtaining information on the IS and EdTech academic program offerings as well as IS and EdTech non-academic ventures. These information was compiled and analyzed to answer the following research questions: How many and what types of Educational Technology institutes have been in place in each university? How many and what types of Educational Technology Research Projects and Educational Research Outreach are happening in each university? What is the correlation between the US News Ranking of Best Schools of Education and the level of IS/EdTech Initiatives? If there is a correlation how significant is it? Analysis of results revealed some interesting observations....
Maria Lorna A. Kunnath