21st Century Faculty and Students: Educational Technology Surveys 2009 Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

OIT Student and Faculty Technology Surveys - 2009 Surveys – so what? Interesting features: Longitudinal: third in a series (2004, 2007); some questions date to 2001 Comparative: ability to compare students and faculty Generational: ability to look for technology-related generational change (e.g., “digital natives”) Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

OIT Student and Faculty Technology Surveys - 2009 Asked about student and faculty experiences, attitudes, preferences, perceptions, problems Delivered online in spring 2009… …to stratified random samples of students and faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus Supplemented by focus groups Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student and Faculty Tech Surveys – 2009 Respondents Number of respondents Response rate Students 1287 >22.1% (down slightly from 2007) Faculty 249 >31.0% (down slightly from 2007) respondents demographically similar to nonrespondents Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey – 2009 Continuity over time Survey responses overall quite similar to those from 2004 and 2007. Students continue to have: positive attitudes toward technology high comfort levels few problems using technology high experience levels Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Continuity over time Survey responses overall quite similar to those from 2004 and 2007. Faculty continue to report: positive attitudes toward technology high perceived usefulness broad experience using technology in teaching Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey – 2009 Experience : Courses that use online technology Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey – 2009 Experience: Fully online courses growth rate similar to Sloan Foundation’s 17% Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Experience using technology Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Experience using technology Taught at least one online course: Minnesota: 10.2% Sloan/APLU: 34.4% Why? Question wording (“most or all content online” vs “total online, no face-to-face interaction”) Sampling Response rate Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student/Faculty Tech Surveys – 2009 Experience: Fully online courses Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey 2009 Technology use: Web 2.0 Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Percentage of students who never: Student Tech Survey 2009 Web 2.0: ECAR Comparison Percentage of students who never: Why? Question wording (e.g. “contribute content” vs “upload video”) Sampling/response rates Minnesota ECAR Wikis 84.6 58.1 Video websites 75.2 55.2 Blogs 68.2 62.7

Student Tech Survey 2009 Web 2.0: The 1% Rule most students use Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis, and podcasting as consumers rather than producers “What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.” - Charles Arthur, July 20, 2006, The Guardian

Student Tech Survey – 2009 Technology as info delivery students seem to view educational technology primarily as a means for delivering information efficiently and conveniently shown in: what tech students find useful types of uses they favor best uses of tech Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Technology as info delivery faculty also see educational technology primarily as a means for delivering information efficiently and conveniently shown in: attractors effective uses ideal classroom what faculty want to learn about delivery-model uses of tech consistently rated above uses having to do with collaboration, interaction, gaming, etc. Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey 2009 Mobile technology ownership Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey 2009 Mobile technology ownership Course management systems have been with us for many years. Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Digital distractions Three groups of faculty: the incensed: “it bugs me – an incredibly disrespectful behavior.” the resigned: “using digital media is part of my students’ everyday life now… I can’t control daydreaming either.” the circumspect: “I believe this is a challenge to create learning opportunities with more involvement.” Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey – 2009 Digital distractions Three groups of students: the distracted: “I tend to do it… it’s bad news and very distracting.” the undistracted: “It doesn’t affect my learning when [someone else] is on Facebook.” the incensed: “I hate watching kids surf the internet while in class. I find it rude to the professor.” Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

results similar to ECAR 2009 Student/Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Faculty and students on online courses results similar to ECAR 2009 Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey – 2009 Faculty and students on online courses Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Faculty and students on online courses Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

“don’t know” numbers about 5% (students) and 10% (faculty) Student/Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Faculty and students on class capture “don’t know” numbers about 5% (students) and 10% (faculty) Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student Tech Survey – 2009 Are students digital natives? With respect to: experience and use: yes expertise and abilities: no preferences: maybe Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Faculty Tech Survey – 2009 Are faculty millennial instructors? Age does matter. Older faculty: perceive themselves to be less skilled with tech encounter more problems (e.g. time, keeping up with changes, lack of standardization) are less attracted to tech (less enjoyment, less use of multimedia, less communication with students (Thanks to Carl Berger!) Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit

Student and Faculty Tech Surveys – 2009 For more information Full reports available at: http://z.umn.edu/cv J.D. Walker OIT Research & Evaluation Team jdwalker@umn.edu March 16, 2010 Office of Information Technology | www.umn.edu/oit