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A presentation given to the HERDSA Development Forum in Brisbane on the 28 September.TRANSCRIPT
The ever-evolving opportunities provided by technology: Opportunity or hype?
Let's hear what the students have to say
Dr Michael SankeyDirector, Learning Environments and Media
Professor Belinda TynanPVC Learning, Teaching and Quality
Introduction
The evolving opportunities technological change provides requires the frequent evolution of services to facilitate engaged learning.
The resources and costs involved need to be carefully weighed up against the potential benefits of the affordances.
To provide an evidence-based approach to planning USQ recently conducted a multidimensional survey to understand how students’ use and expectations of technologies for both life and study.
The technologies surveyed included, institutional systems (email, LMS), Web2.0 technologies (social networking, shared spaces) and personal devices.
This presentation provides some initial findings and reflects on some implications for emerging learning environments for ‘todays’ student.
Enrolled students USQ
• All students 26,000
• On-campus 6,000
• External/online 20,000 (77%)
• International 7,400 (2,300 ONC)
The vast majority of USQ students access information services online
Most Students and Staff know what they’re getting themselves in for when they come to USQ
Social networking
Some assumptions
Lots of students use Facebook, Twitter, iPhones etc., so they will want to use it for their studies.
We build it (engaging stuff) and they will come
Staff now all have iPads so the students must also want to be using them
New technologies can do a better job than some more traditional approaches
Image accessed from: https://schoolpsych-ipad.wikispaces.com/
Method
2010 Macquarie, UWS & UTS jointly ran the Student Experience of Technology in Universities Survey
Online survey open for 3 weeks 126 multi-choice questions based on 5 point likert scale, 4 open ended response questions 5 x $50 Amazon vouchers up for grabs Email sent to all students + 2 reminders + on Student
Portal 1181 valid responses
Focus group (yet to be held) 700+ willing to participate (ideas, how to do this many)Gosper, M., Malfroy, J., McKenzie, J., & Ranking, J. (2011). Students’ engagement with technologies:
Implications for university practice. In G.Williams, N. Brown, M. Pittard, & B. Cleland (Eds.) Changing Demands, Changing Directions. Proceedings ascilite Hobart 2011 http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/hobart11/procs/filename.pdf
5 main sections
Part 1 technologies currently used in everyday life for social and work purposes.
Part 2 current and preferred use of technologies for learning and communicating with the wider university.
Part 3 the services and support provided for learning.
Part 4 the technologies used to interact with the university for administrative purposes.
Part 5 general demographic information
Base stats
internal/on-campus external/distance studentInternal/on-campus or external/distance student
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
380
801
Full-time Part-timeFull-time or part-time student
480
500
520
540
560
580
600
620
640
660
551
660
Female MaleGender
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
770
441
18 or less 19-20 21-25 26-30 31-40 41-50 Over 50Age
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
60
103
161 155
331
217
154
28%
68% 56%
65%
73%
Non-award (eg ELCOS, TPP) Undergraduate Postgraduate coursework Postgraduate research Undergraduate or postgraduate student
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
58
785
288
50
In first year In 2nd year In 3rd year In 4th year +Years studying at this university, so far
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
476
231201
273
N=1181
67%
40%
Full-time
Part-time (<10 h'rs p/w)
Part-time (11 - 20 h'rs p/w)
Part-time (20 or > h'rs p/w)
Not in paid employment
Em
ploy
men
t st
atus
0 100 200 300 400 500
466
111
136
123
344
40%
Technologies Surveyed Instant messaging (eg MSN, Yahoo Chat, ICQ) Text message (SMS) Email Collaborative / conferencing technologies (eg Skype, Wimba,
FaceTime ) ePortfolios Mobile phone for voice calls and with internet access LMS (Moodle) RSS feeds using a variety of web sources Social networking sites (eg Facebook, Twitter, Google +) Social bookmarking / tagging (eg del.icio.us, Diigo) GPS
tagging of photos on the web (eg Flickr, Picasa, etc) 3D Virtual worlds Blogs and Wikis Online multi-user computer games (eg WoW, Everquest)
Library search engines (eg e-journals / electronic databases) Internet search engines (eg Google, Yahoo) Podcasts or webcasts (eg watching or listening to You Tube) Software used to create audio/video materials (eg Garage
Band, Director, iMovie) Presentation software (eg PowerPoint, KeyNote) Web development software (eg HTML editors such as
Dreamweaver or Front Page) Interactive whiteboards Data analysis software (eg spreadsheets and databases) Google docs Tablet computer (eg iPad)
Top 10 tools used outside study
Inte
rnet
sear
ching
SMS
Voice
call (
mob
ile)
Social
net
workin
g
Mob
ile in
tern
et
Data
analy
sis so
ftwar
e
Wat
ch p
od/w
ebca
sts
Libra
ry se
achin
g
Using
table
t0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200 1137 11211061 1047
907851
633 622
551
413
N=1181
Top 10 technologies used by students in their everyday lives
Searc
h en
gines
-goo
gle
Text m
essa
ge -S
MS
Mob
ile p
hone
- vo
ice c
alls
Social
net
workin
g - F
aceb
ook,
Twitt
er
Podca
sts
-You
Tub
e
Inst
ant m
essa
ging
-MSN
Mob
ile p
hone
- int
erne
t
Libra
ry s
earc
h en
gines
- jou
rnals
, dat
abas
es
doc
s0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
X X
The computing equipment they have access to
Deskto
p co
mpu
ter a
t hom
e
Lapt
op co
mpu
ter a
t hom
e
Lapt
op o
n ca
mpu
s with
no
inte
rnet
conn
ectio
n
Lapt
op o
n ca
mpu
s with
wire
less
inte
rnet
Compu
ter l
abs o
n ca
mpu
s
Compu
ter a
t wor
k
Mob
ile p
hone
with
inte
rnet
acc
ess
IPad
or A
ndro
id p
ad w
ith w
irele
ss in
tern
et
Gamin
g co
nsol
e with
inte
rnet
acc
ess
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
610
1055
47
211
368
510
785
318
207
N=118190%
67%
Primary Internet access
Dial Up ADSL (1 or 2) Cable Satellite 3G 4G Wireless (no plan) Through Uni or other third party
What level of primary Internet access do you have?
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
14
707
91
26
177
33
67 66
N=1181
60%
Example
Never or Rarely A few times a SEMESTER A few times a MONTH A few times a WEEK One or more times a DAY0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000944
10166 64
6
326
239267 279
70
CURRENTLY do this WOULD LIKE TO do this
N=1181
Some interesting shifts
Libr
ary o
nlin
e re
sour
ces
Pod/V
odca
sts b
y Lec
ture
rs
Pod/V
odca
sts b
y stu
dent
s
Pod/V
odca
sts o
n th
e web
RSS feed
s rel
evan
t to st
udie
s
Blogs
by o
ther
stud
ents
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
747721
175
333
183187
942 965
492
681
539
448
Current useFuture use
N=1181
Technologies for learning
Use TwitterCreate Wikis
Online document sharing Social networking
Vitrual worldsFlicker/
youtube/picasa
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
47 79
210 253
23
185
184
344
479540
172
486
Current useFuture use
N=1181
14%
16%
Technologies for learning
ePor
tfolio
for s
tudy
ePor
tfolio
for c
aree
r
Web
conf
eren
cing
com
's
Web
conf
eren
cing
lectu
res
Mob
ile p
hone
to co
ntrib
ute
Table
t to co
ntrib
ute
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
116102 137
136
313
226
380438 481
616596 606
Current useFuture use
N=1181
Student with staff Student with student
Instant messagingText messaging
EmailIn LMS
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
75
173
682 704
281368
862847
119
292
523
632
308
454
748 781
Current with staffFuture with staffCurrent with staff2Future with student
N=1181
Technologies for Admin Purposes
Not At All Useful A Little Useful Moderately Useful Quite Useful Very Useful
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
781
160101 78 61
Twitter RSS feeds
Not At All Useful
A Little Useful Moderately Useful
Quite Useful Very Useful
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
176199
247
346
213
Not At All Useful
A Little Useful Moderately Useful
Quite Useful Very Useful
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350 305 306
243
204
123
Paper-based letters or memos
Not At All Useful A Little Useful Moderately Useful Quite Useful Very Useful
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
2044
118
367
632
67%
Technologies for Admin PurposesFacebook Mobile voice calls
Comm’s through LMSMobile apps
Not At All Useful A Little Useful Moderately Useful Quite Useful Very Useful
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
49
104
216
406 406
Not At All Useful A Little Useful Moderately Useful Quite Useful Very Useful
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
384
186172
210229
Not At All Useful A Little Useful Moderately Useful Quite Useful Very Useful
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
343
246 248
189
155
Not At All Useful A Little Useful Moderately Useful Quite Useful Very Useful
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
226
133
165
295
362
Conclusion Lots of students use Twitter, Facebook, etc., so they will
want to use it for their studies Yes quite a few do, but only a few are interested in using them for
study
We build it (engaging stuff) and they will come That is true in relation to the use of LMS and online conferencing,
vod/pod casting and particularly for the self testing of knowledge
Staff now all have iPads so the students must also want to be using them Students are mostly using laptops for study
New technologies can do a better job than some more traditional approaches To some degree we are clearly seeing a trend to using more online
technologies
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