Results from the 2005 Educational Technology Surveys

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Results from the 2005 Educational Technology
Surveys

• Cara Lane
• Research Scientist
• Catalyst Research and DevelopmentOffice of
  Learning Technologies

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Project Collaborators

• Office of Learning Technologies
• Office of Undergraduate Education
• Office of Educational Assessment
• Classroom Support Services
• Computing Communication
• UW Libraries
• Office of Educational Outreach
• Student Technology Fee Committee

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Report

• Full report http//catalyst.washington.edu/projec
  ts
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions and recommendations

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Response Details

• Instructor survey
• Sample size 4,390
• Response Rate 34.4
• Student survey
• Sample size 3,500
• Response rate 28.2
• Focus groups
• 40 instructors and 25 students

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Faculty Demographics

• Respondents
• 884
• Average Age
• 50
• Gender
• 61 male
• 39 female

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Undergraduate Demographics

• Respondents
• 648
• Average Age
• 22
• Gender
• 39 male
• 61 female

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Finding

• Support for technology facilities and services is
  high

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Faculty Quote

• Labs are everywhere, theyre all over the place,
  theyre readily available, and theyre economical
  to use. So I can freely give assignments and have
  projects and homework that require a computer now
  and students can go and do them.

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Finding

• Strong interest in Web-based tools

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Online Portfolios

• Which of the following educational technologies
  would like instructors to use in your courses?
• 50 Online Portfolios
• 46 Computer simulations
• 38 Streaming Videos
• 26 Instant messaging
• 14 Video Conferencing

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Finding

• Wireless in classrooms will increase laptop use
  during class sessions

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Laptop Ownership
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Laptops in Classrooms
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Undergraduate Quote

• The things that will make wireless really
  powerful will be new applications that begin to
  use that connectivity to do new things

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Finding

• Correlation between gender and tech skills

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Expertise by Group
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Expertise by Gender
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Finding

• Undergraduates use more types of technology for
  academic purposes than faculty do

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Academic Use of IM
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Finding

• Faculty want better access to technology in
  classrooms

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Opportunities to Use Technology

• The UW should provide more opportunities to use
  educational technologies
• 73 agree
• How?
• 1 Improve access to technology in classrooms

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Faculty Quote

• Most lecture halls are equipped with the
  appropriate technology, but most smaller
  classrooms are not. If you invest the time to use
  technology in a 50-person class and dont know if
  you are going to get the same classroom every
  year, the significant cost of transformation may
  not pay off in the event that you do not get an
  equipped classroom again.

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Finding

• Undergraduates want course materials available
  online

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The UW Should Require all Courses to have Web
Sites
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Undergraduate Quote

• Something that would help support my learning
  would be having more information about a course
  online, especially requiring professors to put a
  syllabus on a Web site. It would be nice to look
  on the teachers Web site and see all the
  assignments. That would be fantastic.

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Finding

• Teaching assistants and graduate students that do
  not teach have different attitudes towards
  technology

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Demographics

• Graduate Students
• Respondents
• 286
• Average Age
• 32
• Gender
• 39 male
• 61 female

• Teaching Assistants
• Respondents
• 411
• Average Age
• 29
• Gender
• 44 male
• 56 female

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The UW should Provide Guidance in Building Online
Portfolios
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Laptops for Students
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Next Steps

• Current
• Partners are using survey results to inform
  decisions
• ECAR survey
• Future
• Repeating surveys every 3 years
• Next survey in spring 2008