Looking Back : Results of an Exit Survey

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• Looking Back Results of an Exit Survey
• Jacques Raynauld, Ph.D.
• École des Hautes Études Commerciales

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Overview

• Objective of the session
• A quick look at HEC-Montreal Virtuose
• BBA program
• Survey
• Some results
• Looking back ... and ahead

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HEC-Montreal

• Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) is a
  large business school part of the University of
  Montreal campus
• 200 full time faculty
• 10 000 full-time and part-time students

Quick look at HEC-Virtuose Program
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Facilities

• New building in 1996
• All classes are wired and equiped with a
  video-data projector
• 8 000 network outlets
• All faculty have laptops since 1996
• People Soft Academic in February 2001

Quick look of HEC-Virtuose Program
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Virtuose Program

• First laptop initiative at the MBA level in 1997
  ....
• ... undergraduate BBA in 1998
• 3-year program
• Most of our students commute - do not live on
  campus
• First Virtuose graduates in May 2001

Quick look at HEC-Virtuose Program
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Virtuose Program

• Phased-in approach
• Students buy from the student run co-op
• HEC ThinkPad ensemble including the laptop,
  software, carrying bag, etc.
• Over 3 200 students currently enrolled

Quick look at HEC-Virtuose Program
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Objectives

• The laptop as a daily communication and working
  tool ...
• ... used in class in some chosen courses
• ... and during some exams (20-25 each term)

Quick look at HEC-Virtuose Program
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BBA program

• First year
• 12 sections of 65 students for the whole year -
  imposed 9h to 3h schedule
• 10 core courses (5 per semester)
• Second year
• Individual schedule
• 8 core courses 2 electives (20)
• Third year
• 2 core courses 8 electives chosen from a major
  (100)

BBA program
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Survey

• Conducted electronically in April 2001
• Jointly with the student union
• 792 respondents / 3 200 students
• 77 questions
• Some questions from Valley City State and RPI

Survey
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Survey

• Distributed Friday 4pm ...
• ... 422 (53) questionnaires were in by Sunday
  4pm

Survey
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Survey results
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Survey results
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The laptop as ... a communication tool
Survey results
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The laptop as ... a communication tool
Survey results
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The laptop as ... a communication tool
Survey results
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The laptop ... as a working tool
Survey results
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The laptop ... as a working tool
Survey results
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The laptop ... as a working tool
Survey results
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The laptop ... as a working tool
Survey results
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Technological skills
Survey results
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Technological skills
Survey results
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Technological skills
Survey results
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The classroom again
Survey results
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The classroom again
Survey results
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Looking back and ... ahead

• The laptop as a daily working and communication
  tool
• The laptop as a new teaching/learning paradigm
• Expectations

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A final word
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Questions? Comments?

• jacques.raynauld_at_hec.ca