Survey Background

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Survey Background In Fall of 2003, during
the opening of College, Dr. Eileen Holdens
small group activity entertained the following
question Q Was the technology
sufficient for meeting individual
faculty teaching needs? A The
response was no.
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Survey Background continued In response to
the faculty, the Instructional Technology
Planning Committee, under the leadership of Dr.
Sharon Simpson, developed a faculty-wide,
investigative survey. The focus of the survey
revolved around three parts PART I The
survey was initiated to discover if technology
resources (classroom and office) of critical
importance to teaching and learning were
adequate. PART II Additionally, the survey
polled faculty on their use of GroupWise
e-mail. PART III Finally, the survey took a
comprehensive look at the technology skill set
that faculty expected students to possess.
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Who Participated? Response to the
survey was high, with 119 full-time and 62
adjunct faculty responding
full-time
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• Part I the Adequacy of Critical Technology
  Resources
• Are technology in the office and classroom
  adequate?. Here are some interesting points that
  emerged...
• Frequency of use of technology was reported as
  several times a week.
• For the basic technologies of computers and data
  projectors, a high proportion 90 of respondents
  reported that these resources were adequate.

adequate
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Part I the Adequacy of Critical Technology
Resources continued When reporting on the
adequacy of Internet and network access in
classroom, For the basic technologies of
computers and data projectors, a high proportion
86 of respondents reported that these resources
were adequate.
adequate
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Part II the Use of E-mail When reporting
on the use of e-mail, 15 of respondents reported
that they never use e-mail.
Use email
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Part II the Use of E-mail continued When
reporting on the use of GroupWise or personal
e-mail, only 23 reported using GroupWise as
their preferred e-mail program.
Use personal email
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Part III Faculty Expectations of Student
Technology Readiness What technology skills
do the faculty expect the students to have when
they enter their course?
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Part III Faculty Expectations of Student
Technology Readiness continued Results were
obtained based upon a scale from not needed and
novice to expert level.
Keyboard novice Using Windows, File Management,
Word Processing novice/trainee
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Part III Faculty Expectations of Student
Technology Readiness continued The survey
took a comprehensive look at the technology skill
set that faculty expected students to possess and
discovered that
Graphics, Spreadsheet, Database
novice Presentation novice/trainee
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Part III Faculty Expectations of Student
Technology Readiness continued The survey
took a comprehensive look at the technology skill
set that faculty expected students to possess and
discovered that
Email Web Design novice Internet Library
Skills novice/trainee
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Part III Faculty Expectations of Student
Technology Readiness continued The survey
took a comprehensive look at the technology skill
set that faculty expected students to possess and
discovered that
PDA noviceVideo novice
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Call to Action! . . . . . Discussion! Q
For each of the 3 areas, what does the data
predict? Q What action should be taken? Q
How does this interface with the General
Education Review? Q ?????? PART I The
survey was initiated to discover if technology
resources (classroom and office) of critical
importance to teaching and learning were
adequate. PART II Additionally, the survey
polled faculty on their use of GroupWise
e-mail. PART III Finally, the survey took a
comprehensive look at the technology skill set
that faculty expected students to possess.