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Mapping the Changing Technological
Landscape: Faculty and Student Surveys
on Educational Technology
Cara Lane, Research Scientist
Catalyst Research and Development
Karalee Woody, Director
Catalyst Client Services
Presentation Outline
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Background
Results
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Demographics
Perspectives
Implications
Discussion
Background
University of Washington
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Overview
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643 acres in sunny Seattle, WA
R1 institution
Campuses in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell
Ranked 1st in US for research funds
Population
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Undergraduate students 30,000
Graduate & Professional 11,000
Faculty 4,100
Staff 20,000
Project Collaborators
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Office of Educational Partnerships and
Learning Technologies
Office of Undergraduate Education
Computing & Communication
UW Libraries
Office of Educational Outreach
Student Technology Fee Committee
Study Overview
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Faculty & student surveys
 Technology expertise & use
 Perceptions on educational
technology
Focus groups
 Experiences with technology
 Opinions about the future
Procedures - Respondents
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Faculty
 Sample Size 4,390
 Taught in the last academic year
 Response rate 34.4%
Students
 Sample Size 3,500
 Random sample of enrolled students
 Response rate 28.2%
Focus Groups
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Faculty
 Volunteers from faculty survey
 40 participants
Students
 Volunteers from student survey &
notice in computer lab
 25 participants
Results
Faculty Demographics
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Respondents
 884
Average Age
 50
Gender
 61% male
 39% female
RANK
7%
20%
38%
15%
20%
Full
Assistant
Instructor
Associate
Lecturer
Student Demographics
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Respondents
 648
Average Age
 22
Gender
 39% male
 61% female
CLASS
16%
34%
14%
36%
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Faculty Perspective
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The UW should provide more
opportunities to use educational
technologies
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72.9% agree
How?
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#1: Improve access to technology in
classrooms
Faculty on Classrooms
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“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.”
Classroom Infrastructure
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Desired technologies for seminar
classrooms
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Computer w/ projection
Overhead projector
TV with VCR
Impact of computer with projection
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87.2% of faculty say it enhances their instruction
85% of students agree
70%
Faculty
60%
50%
40%
Students
Use of Tech Classrooms
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59% of faculty
make use of
multimedia
capabilities
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68% have
requests for
tech classrooms
met
30%
20%
10%
0%
Multimedia
Computer
Students
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Faculty
Laptops & Wireless
Own laptop w/ wireless
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Wireless
will
available
across
campus
within
three
years
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
Students
80%
Faculty
Laptops in Classrooms
20%
10%
0%
Current use
w/ wireless in rooms
Impact of Wireless
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Student: “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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Faculty: “It is partly because we
don’t have wireless that we don’t
have models for what to do with it”
Student Perspective
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The UW should require all
courses to have a Web site
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80% of students agree
Desired online resources
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Course syllabi
Lecture notes
Problem sets/exercises
Students on Web Sites
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“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.”
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Percentage
Online Resources by Group
Required course Web
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Lecture notes (% for
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Implications
For the U of Washington
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Classroom Infrastructure
 Investigate what is needed & plan
solutions
Wireless
 Expand pedagogical resources & laptop
access
Online Infrastructure
 Simplify current web publishing system
Discussion
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What are you seeing at your
institution?
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How have you solved some of these
issues, i.e., access to tech in general
classrooms?
Questions?
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Karalee Woody, Director
Catalyst Client Services
[email protected]
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Cara Lane, Research Scientist
Catalyst Research and Development
[email protected]