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The ECAR study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology
•Ali Rahimi: Director, Information Technology Services, The American University of Paris [email protected] www.aup.edu
•Vicky Tseroni: Librarian, American College of Greece, www.acg.edu [email protected]
•Peter Korovessis: Executive Director for IT, American College of Greece, www.acg.edu [email protected]
•Rosa Fusco: Director of Computer Services, The American University of Rome www.aur.edu [email protected]
•Ekaterina Kombarova: Director, Information Technology, The American University of Central Asia
[email protected] www.auca.kg
•Asma Al-Kanan: Director, Library, The American University of Kuwait [email protected] www.auk.edu.kw
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What is EDUCAUSE?
EDUCAUSE® is a nonprofit association and the foremost community of IT leaders and professionals committed to advancing higher education.
EDUCAUSE helps those who lead, manage, and use information technology to shape strategic IT decisions at every level within higher education.
EDUCAUSE annual conference is the most important HE event in the world
EDUCAUSE annual subscription fees: Domain .edu - $40.00 USD Institution's membership - $1075.00 USD (Over 1,800 colleges and
universities) ECAR Premium Subscription - $5,150 USD ECAR Subscription - $3,600 USD (students, faculty, and staff automatically
have access to ECAR research and analyses)
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EDUCAUSE Services:
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EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research
Colleges and universities use the CDS benchmarking service to inform their IT strategic planning and management.
Core Data Services
• Infuse IT engagement not only in academic but also in everyday life.
• Research Topic: “Establishment of an Information Security Awareness and Culture”.
• Focus on the academic sector emphasizing the importance of security awareness in academia and how the lessons learnt here are applied in both personal and professional lives.
EDUCAUSE Resources
EDUCAUSE Resources
Other Resources
• SANS Institute– Securing the Human Target.
• ENISA– The users’ guide on how to raise
information security awareness.
• UK GetSafeOnline– Detailed advise for home and business
users on how to use the Internet confidently, safely and securely
The Method
• Security is not solely an IT discipline.• Investigate the level of security awareness amongst the online
population.• Sample size of 160 students registered for CS1070 –
Introduction to Information Systems course at ACG.• Paper based questionnaire of 28 questions consisting of three
sections:– Background Information (eg. Gender, college year,
academic discipline, age, employment status).– Level of Awareness (eg. Online habits)– T/F Questions (Indicate the level of agreement with
specific information security statements).
Results
• Presented and interpreted in the following four sections: – Background Information.– Use of IT and the Internet.– Security Knowledge and Perceptions and – Security Practices and Behaviors.
• It is the responsibility of the academia to prepare professionals that can protect critical infrastructures and investments in people, equipment and information assets.
• Although a large proportion of respondents claimed knowledge of security measures, they did not demonstrate effective security practices.
Next steps
• Paper publication:– “Information Security Awareness in Academia”,
International Journal of Knowledge Society Research.
• Further research:– Establish a common body of knowledge (CBK) to serve as
a tool that groups the necessary skills and essential knowledge of this field.
– Survey security awareness differences between incoming students and students ready for graduation.
– Develop an Information Security Awareness toolkit.
ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and IT
Overall objective is to examine how IT affects the college experience for students.
To do this it:
• Assesses student’s technology ownership and use
• Explore how effectively instructors and institutions use technology
• Investigates the IT skill level of students
• Measures students’ IT perceptions, attitudes and preferences
Data from the 2012 ECAR study ofundergraduates and IT
Why should we participate in the study?
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AMICAL Member Institutions Summary of Response Statistics
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Institution Response Count Population Sample
SizeCurrent
Response Rate
Estimated Margin of
Error
American University of Central Asia 169 1,039 1,039 16.27% 7.06%
American University of Kuwait 71 2,050 2,050 3.46% 11.74%American University of Rome 46 203 203 22.66% 13.11%
The American College of Greece-Deree College 138 2,325 2,325 5.94% 8.29%
The American University of Paris 77 717 717 10.74% 10.84%
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AMICAL Member Institutions
Response Statistics:• Device Usage & Ownership• Technology Requirements & Expectations• Student Recommendations for Instructors
use of Technology
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AU Cen. Asia
AU Kuwait
AU Rome
AU Greece
AU Paris
AMICAL
All non-US institutions
All institutions
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
11%
3%
4%
5%
3%
6%
7%
4%
11%
3%
2%
7%
3%
7%
6%
4%
78%
94%
94%
88%
95%
87%
87%
92%
Q. 2.1a - Own Laptop ?
Yes, Currently own a Laptop
No & DO plan to purchase
No & Do NOT Plan to Purchase
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AU Cen. Asia
AU Kuwait
AU Rome
AU Greece
AU Paris
AMICAL
All non-US institutions
All institutions
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
27%
6%
20%
9%
10%
16%
11%
16%
21%
1%
4%
5%
4%
10%
8%
7%
52%
93%
76%
86%
86%
75%
82%
77%
Q2.1.c Own Smartphone ?
Yes, I currently own one
No, and I DO plan to purchase one
No, and I don't plan to purchase one
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AU Cen. Asia
AU Kuwait
AU Rome
AU Greece
AU Paris
AMICAL
All non-US institutions
All institutions
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%
49%
59%
70%
33%
81%
53%
47%
59%
7%
3%
9%
4%
1%
5%
5%
4%
44%
38%
22%
63%
18%
43%
48%
36%
Q2.1.c Own Desktop ?
Yes, I currently own one
No, and I DO plan to purchase one
No, and I don't plan to purchase one
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AU Cen. Asia
AU Kuwait
AU Rome
AU Greece
AU Paris
AMICAL
All non-US institutions
All institutions
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
1%
5%
0%
0%
1%
1%
3%
1%
6%
36%
51%
18%
69%
29%
19%
30%
92%
60%
49%
81%
29%
69%
78%
68%
Q2.2a. OS/type: Laptop?
WindowsMACLINUX
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AU Cen. Asia
AU Kuwait
AU Rome
AU Greece
AU Paris
AMICAL
All non-US institutions
All institutions
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
4%
0%
0%
0%
3%
1%
3%
5%
38%
7%
8%
19%
2%
18%
27%
27%
58%
87%
92%
76%
90%
78%
63%
61%
2.2b. OS/type: Tablet or iPad ?
IPAD
ANDROID
WINDOWS
BLACKBERRY
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AU Cen. Asia
AU Kuwait
AU Rome
AU Greece
AU Paris
AMICAL
All non-US institutions
All institutions
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
2%
1%
9%
3%
4%
3%
3%
31%
4%
13%
4%
6%
10%
7%
9%
9%
38%
31%
41%
28%
38%
34%
41%
40%
31%
27%
28%
34%
22%
30%
27%
25%
25%
28%
17%
30%
26%
26%
19%
21%
3.4 Important that I be better skilled at using technologies
Extremely Important
Very Important
Moderately Important
Not Very Important
Not at all Important
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examples of open ended questions, finding
• Give some examples of how you would like to see free available course content.
1. Khan Academy
• What online resource do you use first ?
1. Google
2. Wikipedia
3. EBSCO/JStorAMICALE ROME 2013
The American University of ParisExperience
AUP’s Participation
in the 2013 ECAR SurveyReport by Jorge Sosa (Library) & Ali Rahimi (ITS) – The American University of Paris
• Collaborative effort: – Information Technology Services & Library
• Partnered with Student Organizations & Academic Affairs
• Several channels of communications
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A Successful First Experience
Communication
February 26 (before the Spring break) - First email to students
With Facebook Postings
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InstitutionResponse
Count PopulationSample
Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
Error
The American University of Paris 37 717 717 5.10% 6.10%
MARCH 10: As of 8 AM (PDT), AUP 2013 ECAR Student Technology Survey response status was as follows:
March 5 (after Spring break)
– Email (AUP & Personal), - Student organizations, - AUP News, Student TV network
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InstitutionResponse
Count PopulationSample
Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
Error
The American University of Paris 71 717 717 9,90% 11.35%
MARCH 18: As of 8 AM (PDT), AUP 2013 ECAR Student Technology Survey response status was as follows:
March 25 – REMINDER: Email message, additional advertising campaign
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InstitutionResponse
Count PopulationSample
Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
Error
The American University of Paris 72 717 717 10,00% 11.3%
MARCH 25: As of 8 AM (PDT) March 25, AUP 2013 ECAR Student Technology Survey response status is as follows:
April 12: Final - As of 8 AM (PDT), AUP 2013 ECAR Student Technology Survey response status is as follows:
InstitutionResponse
Count PopulationSample
Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
Error
The American University of Paris 77 717 717 10.7% 10.8%
• During AUP’s talent show, 3 winners selected at random from the pool of respondents were awarded with gift certificates (2 @ 40 Euros and one @ 100 Euros).
Conclusions:• The prizes seems to be a great instrument to encourage student
participation.• Monitoring the participation is essential in order to launch another
round of the e-mail campaign and the flyers.• Communication is vital and also the key to the success for this survey.• Don’t even try to get a donation for educational purposes with
Amazon. They are a monopoly, although locally very cheap.
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Raffle with Prizes offered
The American University of Central AsiaExperience
What was the goal to participate
to learn about AUCA undergraduate students’ technology profile,
experiences and interests
Who were introducing the survey and promoting the survey
• Vice-president for Academic Affairs
• IT department• Student life office• Academic Advising office• PR office• Student Senate and Faculty and Chairs of
Programs
What did we do to communicate with students / to make participation more active
• First message (invitation) to students asking them to participate in the survey from Vice-president for Academic Affairs
• Reminder messages from IT
• Similar reminders to students from advisers, Chairs of Programs, etc.
• General advertising: AUCA website, Facebook, Twitter, desktop wallpaper, home page in IE and on posters
• Massage to faculty to say that we are surveying students and need the support
• Invitation to participate in a prize draw for those students who completed the survey
Institution
Response Count as
of 4/8 PopulationSample
Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
ErrorAmerican University of Central Asia 130 1,039 1,039 12.5% 8.2%
Institution
Response Count as of 4/12 Population
Sample Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
ErrorAmerican University of Central Asia 169 1,039 1,039 16.3% 7.1%
Institution
Response Count as
of 4/1 PopulationSample
Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
ErrorAmerican University of Central Asia 69 1,039 1,039 6.6% 11.7%
Institution
Response Count asof 3/18 Population
Sample Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
ErrorAmerican University of Central Asia 35 1,039 1,039 3.4% 16.9%
AUCA statistics on students' response
InstitutionResponse
Count PopulationSample
Size
Current Response
Rate
Estimated Margin of
ErrorAmerican University of Central Asia 2 1,039 1,039 0.19% 99.90%
AUCA statistics on students' response
Mar 18 Mar 25 Apr 1 Apr 8 Apr 120
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
2
35
69
130
169
opened: March 18 closed: April 12
First findings
• A lot of AUCA students participated in the survey – 169 (16,3%)this shows interest from the student community in this survey and good administrative work on promoting the survey
• AUCA has consistent results with other AMICAL participants,this means that AUCA faculty, students and administration demonstrate the same pattern in the use of IT within an academic context this allows us to create a comparative analysis and make future collaborative projects
• There are a lot of results in ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Technology, and we need to conduct deeper quantitative /qualitative cross tabulation analysis with development of practical recommendations
The American University of RomeExperience
The Process
How did we encourage participation?
Institution Response count
Population Sample size Response rate
The American University of Rome
46 203 203 22.66%
Response Statistics for AUR
Technology AUR All Institutions AMICAL schools
Laptop 93.5% 92.3% 86.8%
Tablet/I-Pad 30.4% 28.9% 24.8%
Smartphone 76.1% 77.0% 74.7%
Desktop PC 21.7% 36.2% 42.5%
Data for technology ownership
Learning environment, where students learn best
Environment AUR All Institutions AMICAL schools
Some online component
55.6% 61.6% 65.9%
The American College of GreeceExperience
We have never conducted a similar comprehensive survey
We make a number of assumptions about student experience with technology
Opportunity to benchmark with other similar institutions
The decision to participate
IT and Library worked together Sought approval by the administration Did not opt to participate in the incentive
program:◦ Complicated internal process◦ Complete confidentiality
Survey ran from March 7 to April 12 Invited students to participate
Survey administration
Response counts
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Final0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
64 64
98106
138
The American University of KuwaitExperience
Why ECAR?
•Strategic Planning & Improvement•Institutional Assessment•Group Level Data
Getting Started with ECAR
•Admin. Approval•Intent to Participate Form
Departments Involved
•IR•IT•Library
Process Overview
•March 20th – Faculty and Staff were informed of the study being distributed to students.
•March 25th – initial e-mail with the survey link was sent from the President
•April 7th – reminder sent to students from VP-Student Affairs to students to complete the survey
•April 10th – reminder sent to students from IT Director to students to complete the survey
•April 15th – Received confirmation from Educause that the survey was closed, and AUK’s response rate was approximately 3.5%
•Institutional Data files to be distributed by Mid-June, with full published annual report out in September 2013.
Response Rate
3.46%
To Participate Again?
Yes, Definately!
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Questions and Discussion
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