5 Higher Ed Research Datasets Added to Ithaka S+R Collection

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 11/13/20

Consultancy Ithaka S+R has made five datasets newly available for download from its higher education research. The work is stored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

The access, which requires registration, now includes these datasets:

The goal of making the data available for use by others, according to a blog article by Assessment Associate Nicole Betancourt, was twofold: to ensure that the data was "digitally preserved, enabling long-term access," and also that the data was "thoroughly processed and made available in a variety of formats for download." Links to the datasets and reports of previously published findings are available in the article.

About the Author

Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.

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