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2. Findings from the University of Washington Faculty and Student Assessment of Educational Technology Melody Winkle, Information Architect Computing & Communications Karalee Woody, Director Catalyst Client Services

3. Presentation Outline Methods Results  Demographics  Perspectives Conclusions

4. Methods

5. Partners Office of Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies Office of Undergraduate Education Computing & Communication UW Libraries Office of Educational Outreach Student Technology Fee Committee

6. History 2001 Faculty Survey 2002 Student Survey

7. Process Setting goals The goal of this study was to improve teaching and learning at the UW

8. Process Creating instruments

9. Process Conducting surveys Conducting focus groups

10. Procedures - Respondents Faculty  Sample Size 4,390  Taught in the last academic year  Response rate 32.8% Students  Sample Size 3,500  Random sample of enrolled students  Response rate 28.2%

11. Focus Groups Faculty  Volunteers from faculty survey  40 participants Students  Volunteers from student survey & notice in computer lab  25 participants

12. Results

13. Undergraduate Demographics Respondents  648 Average Age  22 Gender  39% male  61% female

14. Faculty Demographics Respondents  884 Average Age  50 Gender  61% male  39% female

15. Expertise How would you rate your current expertise as a computer user?

16. General expertise

17. Faculty comment “I never had students complain that the technology was beyond them or they were getting lost in technology or that they didn’t understand technology. My feeling is that they are way ahead of us.”

18. Student comment “When faculty are on top of the technologies it definitely enhances learning. When they’re not competent, then their use of technology detracts.”

19. An imbalance Longitudinal comparison Categories of expertise Demographic influences

20. Longitudinal comparison

21. Categories of expertise

22. Demographic influences

23. Technology use

24. Technology Use

25. Perspectives on Technology

26. Students on Web Sites “Something that would help support my learning would be having more information about a course online, especially requiring professors to put a syllabus on a Web site. It would be nice to look on the teacher’s Web site and see all the assignments. That would be fantastic.”

27. Perspectives on Technology

28. Emerging Technologies Laptops and wireless Web-based tools Instant messaging

29. Laptops & Wireless

30. Impact of Wireless Student: “The things that will make wireless really powerful will be new applications that begin to use that connectivity to do new things” Faculty: “It is partly because we don’t have wireless that we don’t have models for what to do with it”

31. Web-based tools

32. Conclusions Demographic influences Technology use Online resources Wireless Web-based tools

33. Karalee Woody, Director Catalyst Client Services karalee@u.washington.edu Melody Winkle, Information Architect Computing & Communications mwinkle@u.washington.edu