Monday, February 18, 2019

Digital experience insights surveys

This month JISC has published the latest in their surveys of tertiary education students' preferences and perceptions about the use of digital in learning: Digital experience insights survey 2018: findings from Australian and New Zealand university students a report on "21,095 students in 12 universities in Australia and New Zealand". This adds to their regular report Digital experience insights survey 2018: findings from students in UK further and higher education (the latest published September 2018) and the survey of UK university and college teachers' views (pilot report published in November 2018). For all these go to https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/our-service/our-reports/
As an addendum, a study at Oregon State University is described in: Stritto, M. and Linder, K. (2019, January 10). Uncovering Student Device Preferences for Online Course Access and Multimedia Learning. https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2019/1/uncovering-student-device-preferences-for-online-course-access-and-multimedia-learning? Considering the emphasis that is sometimes put on use of phones and tablets, a useful finding (which has come up in previous studies) is that "A key finding in this study was respondents' overwhelming ownership and use of laptops. As shown in figure 2, 73 percent of the respondents preferred laptops for accessing their online course via the learning management system (LMS). Majorities of respondents also preferred their laptops for viewing video content and learning with simulations and games."
Photo by Sheila Webber: Buddleia and a winter sky, February 2019

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