1. A pre-conference technology survey was sent out to all DU
faculty and students in November 2009
1126 students and 156 instructors completed the anonymous
survey
Selected response summaries and quotes from the survey are
presented here
2.
3. What recommendations would you give to your professors to
better use technology in your courses?
Get people off the internet for pete's sake. Half the class is
chatting with friends via social networking sites during lecture.
Does that not bother the professors?
Be more interactive with material I guess this isnt a technology
issue more than a teaching issue
Use it. Most don't make any effort.
4.
5. What would you like to be able to do with technology in the
classroom that you currently cannot?
Use it to enhance learning
Have it be more student interactive.
Interact with professor presentations
6. What recommendations would you give to your professors to
better use technology in your courses?
I would mostly just want to see a general increase in tech
literacy. Although I can completely sympathize, it's still a bit
unsettling to see a brilliant and otherwise well-educated professor
stumbling around trying to figure out why they can't plug in a DVI
cable to a VGA output.
Know how to use the equipment in the room.
7.
8. What would you like to be able to do with technology in the
classroom that you currently cannot?
Laptops aid in learning, they do not distract. Allow them with
reason.
Collaboratively work on papers and submit assignments
electronically instead of wasting paper.
Connect with other students in chat forums for group
work.
9. Student Responses:
Faculty Responses:
10. What recommendations would you give to your professors to
better use technology in your courses?
I think that if ALL professors would use blackboard by posting exam
grades and power point slides it would be very beneficial posting
grades at least lets us know where we stand in the class and most
of the professors that I have had do not post any grades until the
last week of term.
Organize blackboard better. Some teachers post way to much
information and it is not organized into folders or easy to find
without having to search all over the place. More is not always
better!!
11. What would you like to be able to do with technology in the
classroom that you currently cannot?
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12. What would you like to be able to do with technology in the
classroom that you currently cannot?
I would have loved to do a class presentation - the whole class
using wikis, video, etc and then have it posted to YouTube as a
research or learning tool.
Classroom settings are currently not that interactive. It would be
nice to be able to follow along problem solving in a more useful
way than just writing it down or doing clicker
questions.
13.
14. What recommendations would you give to your professors to
better use technology in your courses?
Technology can be a useful learning tool. Be careful to make sure
that it supplements the learning. In other words, don't have
technology simply because it's technology.
Classes still generally follow a traditional class format with some
technology grafted on. I would like to see a new culture around
tech in the classroom. Perhaps having lectures and other course
materials online so that a professor's face-to-face time with
students is maximized. I don't need a professor to read an outline
on PowerPoints to me, I can do that myself. I want to understand
how they connect these basic ideas to interesting research or
theoretical ideas that I haven't considered before.
15. What would you like to be able to do with technology in the
classroom that you currently cannot?
I would like to collaborate more with technologies like Podcasts
with audio/video recording that could easily be placed on a phone
or music player.
Twitter/text my questions and have them appear on a projected
screen in the front of the classroom, this way other students may
be able to answer my questions before the instructor has to stop
class to address it. It would support collaborative
learning.
16. What recommendations would you give to your professors to
better use technology in your courses?
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17. What recommendations would you give to your professors to
better use technology in your courses?
No More BORING power points PLEASE!!!!!! It is soooo old and lazy
and boring to have people read from them. Please use creativity
with technology.
Use of a PowerPoint presentation should aid in their lectures, not
be their lectures word for word. There is no sense in listening to
a professor read everything off of a slideshow.
Don't rely too much on PowerPoint. rather than reading off slides
verbatim, gain the respect and attention of the class. it's quite
difficult when some twerp in front row is watching YouTube during
class.