Other iSchool pieces at Pitt?

Just to keep the conversation about the iSchool vision going on, there are several units at Pitt (or parts of units at Pitt) that perhaps should be in an iSchool. Outside of the CS department, the following units deal with "information" at various levels. I list some sample publications of some units as examples.

Learning Research and Development Center - LRDC:

Please see this project at LRDC and the following publications:

Marlouis, S. J., & Gomez, L. M. (in press). Does "connectedness" matter? Evidence from a social network analysis within a small school reform. Teachers College Record.

Richards, K., & Gomez, K. (under review). Toward an understanding of affordance networks by indentifying the intentions and goals of an online curriculum-integrated social networking site. International Journal of Learning and Media.

Chein, J. M., & Fiez, J. A. (2010). Evaluating models of working memory through the effects of concurrent irrelevant information. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 139(1), 117-137.

Coburn, C. E., & Russell, J. L. (2008). District policy and teachers' social networks. Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 30(3), 203-235

Davidson, A. L. & Schofield, J. W. (2002). Bringing the Internet to Schools: A case study of educational and technical professionals' collaboration for change. The Information Society.

Davidson, A. L., Schofield, J. W., & Stocks, J. E. (2001). Professional cultures and collaborative efforts: A case study of technologists and educators working for change. The Information Society, 17, 21-32.

The Department of Biomedical Informatics:

Revisiting breadth vs. depth in menu structures for blind users of screen readers
Hochheiser H, Lazar J. Revisiting breadth vs. depth in menu structures for blind users of screen readers. Interacting with Computers Epub doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2010.02.003. 2010. (in press)

Department of Health Information Management in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

The ISP Program is another example of an interdisciplinary program that has several components of the iSchool.

Prashant Krishnamurthy