Diane Harley

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Diane Harley, Ph.D., directs the Higher Education in the Digital Age (HEDA) project at the Center for Studies in Higher Education. At CSHE, she has created and directed research initiatives focusing on the policy implications of integrating information and communication technologies into complex academic environments.

Dr. Harley is a biosocial anthropologist with a Ph.D. in anthropology; her approach emphasizes the concurrent analysis of social, economic, and academic costs and benefits of technology.

Past work includes serving as the executive director of UC Berkeley's Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), where she worked with Larry Rowe in developing and deploying the Berkeley Internet Broadcasting System (BIBS, now Berkeley Webcast). Dr. Harley has also developed multimedia education programs and managed partnerships with the California and Florida departments of education, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Science Foundation, ABC News Interactive, and various universities, publishers, and software developers. She has held teaching positions in Anthropology and Anatomy/Physiology at UC Berkeley and Mills College. Her publications and presentations span the fields of educational technology, higher education policy, biological anthropology, and the evolution of human biosocial behavior.

She is currently the principal investigator of the Digital Resource Study: Understanding the Use of Digital Resources in Humanities and Social Science Undergraduate Education (funded by the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation); and Regulation of E-Learning: New National and International Policy Perspectives (funded by the Ford Foundation). She is co-principal investigator with C. Judson King on a project investigating the Future of Scholarly Communication.

In addition to her work as a principal investigator, she serves with Neil Smelser and Michael Schudson on the Commission on General Education in the 21st Century.

Her previous projects at the Center include "An Economic and Pedagogical Analysis of Technology Enhancements in a Large Lecture Course" (funded by the A.W. Mellon Foundation), "University Teaching as E-Business: Research and Policy Agendas" (funded by the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation). In the late 1990's she directed The Peder Saether Symposium, the UC Berkeley Humanities and Technology Project, and UC Berkeley's CyberSemester.

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