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RESEARCH
DO YOU THINK INSTITUTIONS SHOULD PROVIDE DEVICES TO ALL STUDENTS?
21%
29%
37%
10%
3%
DO YOU THINK STUDENTS SHOULD PROVIDE THEIR OWN DEVICES?
29%
31%
30%
10%
0%
Yes, absolutely.
Yes, with reservations. I could go either way. No, with exceptions. No, absolutely not.
INSTITUTIONS PROVIDING COMPUTING DEVICES TO STUDENTS
4%
22%
74%
All students receive devices Some students receive devices No devices are provided
made their jobs harder is holding steady (17 percent this year compared to 16 percent in 2016), a growing faction feels that tech has not had an impact either way (10 percent this year compared to 6 percent in 2016).
Whether technology is making life hard or easy for faculty, the majority of respondents (85 percent) feel the effort
is worthwhile, agreeing that “Technology has positively affected my ability to teach.” That number is slightly lower than last year, when 88 percent felt the same.
The results were similar when it came to technology’s impact on student learning. Eighty-one percent of respondents saw a positive effect, compared to 84 percent last year. And 13 percent feel tech hasn’t affected student learning one way or the other. “Technology is
only as successful as the teacher who uses it,” noted one respondent from a public university in California.
Technology in the Hands of Students
While most institutions (74 percent) do not provide computing devices to students, 58 percent of faculty think they should to some extent. Slightly more respondents (60 percent) are in favor of the bring-your-own-device model for classroom learning. And 46 percent of respondents said their institutions require students to bring their own computing devices (an increase from 44 percent in 2016).
When we asked faculty about the most popular computing devices used by their students, two clear favorites emerged: laptops (cited by 57 percent of respondents) and mobile phones (33 percent). Perhaps bowing to those preferences, 79 percent of faculty said they allow students to use mobile phones in the classroom (sometimes with limitations), while 21 percent do not.
Sixty-two percent of respondents believe that the majority of their students (76 percent or more) can get online at home. That’s an improvement from last year, when 56
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