Technology Committee

Student Survey

College of Education & Professional StudiesUniversity of Central Oklahoma

Fall 2009

Caveat Emptor!

• Due to the open nature of the questions, the data presented here is rough and required many judgment calls to categorize

• This data is selective and represents only the most commonly mentioned technologies; see the full data for a more nuanced understanding of the student responses

240 Respondents

The Questions

I will be communicating with my teacher via...

The tools that will be most useful to my classroom learning will be...

The tools that will be most convenient for me to discuss ideasand research will be...

How do you imagine using today’s technology in the future?

What other technology do you imagine using in the future?

Webcam + CoursecastingNotebooks + Digital Text

What would the physical space of your perfect learning environment look like?

What is missing from today’s classrooms that you would like to see in the future?

What limits technology from being successful right now and what might do so in the future?

If you could make just one suggestion to CEPS regarding the use of technology, now or in the future, what would it be?

See the Full Data

Specific Products: Overall Word Occurrence (when spelled correctly)

The Takeaway

•Hybrid Classes (On + Offline)

•Online Classroom

•Discussion Groups, Chat, Blogs

•Digital Textbooks

•Distance Education/Coursecasting

Notable Suggestions

•Email Turnaround

•Faculty Untrained/Unprepared

•Students Untrained

•Internet Resources Unreliable/Incompatible

•Crowded/Uncomfortable Classrooms

Notable Complaints

•Use Email

•Use Online Classrooms

•Use Visual Aids, Presentation Software, Hands-On Activities

•More Training

•Strong Basis for 1:1 Computing Adoption

Conclusions

Full data is available at:http://www.uco.edu/ceps/surveys