Student tech 10_12

Students have a say in how they want to use technology to support their learning

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.

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

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

Email

SMS

Voice

call (

mob

ile)

Social

net

workin

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400

600

800

1000

1200 1137 11211061 1047

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633 622

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413

N=1181

Top 10 technologies used by students in their everyday lives

Searc

h en

gines

-goo

gle

Text m

essa

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MS

Email

Mob

ile p

hone

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alls

Social

net

workin

g - F

aceb

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Twitt

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Podca

sts

-You

Tub

e

Inst

ant m

essa

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-MSN

Mob

ile p

hone

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erne

t

Libra

ry s

earc

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gines

- jou

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, dat

abas

es

Google

doc

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10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

X X

The computing equipment they have access to

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IPad

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tern

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inte

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acc

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200

400

600

800

1000

1200

610

1055

47

211

368

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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

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sour

ces

Pod/V

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rs

Pod/V

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s

Pod/V

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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=118182%

Technologies for learning

Use TwitterCreate Wikis

Online document sharing Social networking

Vitrual worldsSelf-testing

quizzes

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

47 79

210 253

23

483

184

344

479 540

172

821


N=1181

14%

16%

70%

Technologies for learning

ePor

tfolio

for s

tudy

ePor

tfolio

for c

aree

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Web

conf

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cing

com

's

Web

conf

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cing

lectu

res

Mob

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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


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


0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

2044

118

367

632

Email

67%

Technologies for Admin PurposesFacebook Mobile voice calls

Comm’s through LMSMobile apps


0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

49

104

216

406 406


0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

384

186172

210229


0

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100

150

200

250

300

350

343

246 248

189

155


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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