1. Student engagement with ICT as an underpinning of the curriculum Jessie Paterson, Hamish Macleod, Victoria Dishon

2. UG survey of ICT uses & attitudes the picture in March of 2011 580 respondents; age & gender profile as expected very confident; but 2.4% are “very apprehensive” 99% own a computer 93% have a laptop or netbook device only 28% of laptop owners plan to bring them to campus 90% have fast internet connection from residence eBook reader 8%; tablet 5%; smart phone 50% 88% using social networks daily for personal purposes 44% using social networks daily for academic purposes

3. School of Engineering: Students use of Cloud Technologies in academic assignments Survey run in December 2011, with 197 respondents. UG and Taught PG 94.9% answered yes to using social media and file sharing sites to facilitate academic assignments. Facebook groups 75.4%, Google Docs 55.4%, Dropbox 63.1%. Mostly for file sharing 92.3% and collaborating on documents 57.9%. Frequency of use, weekly 28.2%, all the time 36.4%. Only 1% state that University staff setup or created the tool/s they used. Evidence of sophisticated co-creation of materials completely outside of University ICT provision.

4. Contact us:- Jessie.Paterson@ed.ac.uk H.A.Macleod@ed.ac.uk V.Dishon@ed.ac.uk Twitter #etcict