Results from the 2005 Educational Technology Surveys Cara Lane Research Scientist Catalyst Research and Development Office of Learning Technologies

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

Report Full report: Contents:  Acknowledgements  Methods  Results  Conclusions and recommendations

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

Faculty Demographics Respondents  884 Average Age  50 Gender  61% male  39% female

Undergraduate Demographics Respondents  648 Average Age  22 Gender  39% male  61% female

Finding Support for technology facilities and services is high

Faculty Quote “Labs are everywhere, they’re all over the place, they’re readily available, and they’re 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.”

Finding Strong interest in Web- based tools

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

Finding Wireless in classrooms will increase laptop use during class sessions

Laptop Ownership

Laptops in Classrooms

Undergraduate Quote “The things that will make wireless really powerful will be new applications that begin to use that connectivity to do new things”

Finding Correlation between gender and tech skills

Expertise by Group

Expertise by Gender

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

Academic Use of IM

Finding Faculty want better access to technology in classrooms

Opportunities to Use Technology The UW should provide more opportunities to use educational technologies  73% agree How?  #1: Improve access to technology in classrooms

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 don’t 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.”

Finding Undergraduates want course materials available online

The UW Should Require all Courses to have Web Sites

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 teacher’s Web site and see all the assignments. That would be fantastic.”

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

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

The UW should Provide Guidance in Building Online Portfolios

Laptops for Students

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