{"id":52,"date":"2005-10-23T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=52"},"modified":"2005-10-23T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T16:26:21","slug":"students-and-it-2005-convenience-connection-control-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2005\/10\/23\/students-and-it-2005-convenience-connection-control-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and IT 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control, and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECAR has released a study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/ers0506\">Students and Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control, and Learning<\/a>, and while I think they use too many commas in their study title, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/ir\/library\/pdf\/ERS0506\/ekf0506.pdf\">Key Findings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/ir\/library\/pdf\/ERS0506\/ecm0506.pdf\">Roadmap<\/a> provide good overviews of the study.<\/p>\n<p>Among the more interesting findings in the study is that &#8220;most students prefer a moderate amount of technology in their courses.&#8221;  The age breakdown for this preference is a bit interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surprisingly, the youngest students in the study (18- to 19-year olds) have the least preference for IT in courses (mean of 2.86 where 1 represents courses with no IT and 5 represents courses that use IT exclusively).  The 30-39 age group has the strongest preference for the use of IT in courses (mean of 3.25).  Seniors have a greater preference for IT in their courses than do freshman. (Roadmap, pages 2-3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other big takeaway from the study is that everybody loves course management systems.  Well, 75%, which is close to everybody.  What do students like most about CMS?  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tracking of grades on assignments and tests, and accessing sample exams and quizes.<\/li>\n<li>Course administration &#8211; accessing course syllabi, turning in assignments online, getting assignments back from instructors, accessing online readings, and taking exams online. (Roadmap, page 3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess I&#39;m surprised at the way the study broke those two items down.  It seems to read that students like CMS for 1) grades and 2) all the other features that a CMS might contain.  But it is good to see these kinds of results in the survey.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ve been experiencing exponential use of Blackboard at Richmond this semester, with each week generating new highs in page view activity.   We&#39;re experiencing almost twice as many page views this semester as we were in the spring.  So somebody is enjoying <i>something<\/i> about CMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECAR has released a study, Students and Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control, and Learning, and while I think they use too many commas in their study title, the Key Findings and Roadmap provide good overviews of the study. Among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2005\/10\/23\/students-and-it-2005-convenience-connection-control-and-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}