Rights and Rewards Project: Academic Survey - final report

Abstract

As part of the JISC funded Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories project, a motivational survey was undertaken. A questionnaire addressed to all academic staff in UK Further Education (FE) institutions and to specialists in the field of Teaching and Learning (T&L) was available online. The aim of the questionnaire was to gather views on the use of an institutional repository (IR) for the deposit of teaching and learning materials. Two of the main areas of interest were: • What ‘Rights’ would individuals expect to exert over the teaching materials they deposit into a repository? • What ‘Rewards’ would motivate them to deposit their teaching materials? This report outlines the activities undertaken in the preparation of the questionnaire, including brief notes on the pilot studies. It also details efforts to advertise the survey and provides a analysis of the responses.