Educational Technology

October 21, 2012

ECAR Report of Undergraduate Students and Technologies

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:29 am

by JESSIE CHUANG, Classroom-aid

The use of devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones is pervasive. According to the 2012 ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, a full 86 percent of college students own a laptop, with smartphone ownership topping 60 percent. Clearly, there is need for these devices, and colleges increasingly are providing the infrastructure to make them as useful as possible. ECAR has surveyed undergraduate students annually since 2004 about technology in higher education. In 2012, ECAR collaborated with 195 institutions to collect responses from more than 100,000 students about their technology experiences. The findings are distilled into the broad thematic message for institutions and educators to balance strategic innovation with solid delivery of basic institutional services and pedagogical practices and to know students well enough to understand which innovations they value the most.

http://classroom-aid.com/2012/10/16/ecar-report-of-undergraduate-students-and-technologies/

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