D-Projects has been a 15 year long expedition to
carry out a longitudinal study of both analog and
digital projects across a variety of disciplines.
 
The primary goal has been to learn how to improve
the viability of digital projects by identifying
and sharing sustainable strategies.
 
The expedition has resulted in a number of academic
publications and presentations (see the list below).
 
More importantly, it has resulted in the establishment
of an innovative, hybrid analog/digital archive containing
records about thousands of projects around the world.
The archive currently includes over 200 linear feet of
hardcopy files and over 100 gigabytes of digital data.
 
The newest focus of D-Projects has become documenting
and contributing to the process of transition as many older,
well established projects begin to translate and redefine
themsevles within virtual worlds such as SecondLife.
The new Gates to SecondLife project is a continuation of
D-Projects designed to identify and provide access to projects in that 3D environment.
 
The next major goal of this D-Projects will be to establish
a non-profit foundation with a significant endowment to
support the protection and continuation of this work.
 
If you are interested in contributing to this initiative,
please feel free to contact Dr. Mary Hopper.
 
Click here to learn more about D-Projects!
 
D-Projects Publications & Presentations
 
Hopper, M. E. (2004) Methods for studying educational computing projects: Challenges and opportunities. In J. Impagliazzo and J. Lee (Ed.). History of Computers in Education. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Hopper, M. E. (2001). Wisdom from MIT’s Athena: A paradigm for precognition. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies Program.

Hopper, M. E. & Summer, R. B. (2001, February). Where's the media? Models for creating and distributing teacher and student made digital media [Abstract]. Presentation at Second Wiring the Classroom Conference. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
 
Hopper, M. E. (2000, March). E-Projects Square: The Expedition to MIT and Beyond. Research Seminar Presentation. Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Hopper, M. E. (2000, January). Knowledge systems 101: From Alexandria to Hitchhiker's Guide [Short course, 4 sessions, 2-hours each]. Independent Activity Period (IAP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
 
Hopper, M. E. (1999, October). A project about projects: Watching academic electronic media projects evolve [Abstract]. Presentation at the Media-in-Transition Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Hopper, M. E. (1998, October). Hypertext in historical context: Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson revisited. Presentation for the Media-in-Transition Project / Communications Forum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
 
Hopper, M.E. (1997, March). The role of learners in the construction of successful courseware projects in distributed academic computing environments [Abstract]. Round-table presentation, Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association, Advanced Technologies for Learning (SIG-ATL), Chicago, IL.
 
Hopper, M. E. (Contributor)(1995). University examples: MIT's Athena Project, Purdue's ESCAPE, organizational issues. In R. Rada (Ed.), Designing educational hypermedia: Coordination and reuse (pp. 84-91). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
 
Hopper, M. E. (1994). Usable software in advanced educational computing projects. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 28(1), 46-48.
 
Hopper, M. E. (1993). Expert's views about courseware development in advanced computing environments [Abstract]. In H. Maurer (Ed.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 93 - Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia.