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RESEARCH
TOP SOFTWARE ON FACULTY WISH LIST FOR THE CLASSROOM
Animation software
14%
Adapting learning
12%
Games
12%
3D modeling
10%
Image editing
8%
Collaboration/whiteboard software
8%
E-portfolios
8%
Audio editing/mixing
7%
Video editing
7%
Lecture capture/screen capture
7%
Scanner/multi-function printers
7%
Subscription-based education streaming services
6%
FORMAT OF TEXTBOOKS IN USE
18% 8%
74%
Electronic Mixed Paper
TEACHING ENVIRONMENTS
12%
15%
73%
Fully online Mixed online and face to face Exclusively face-to-face
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respondents); presentation software (96 percent); learning management systems (93 percent); online video services (90 percent); and gradebooks (89 percent). The same tech dominated last year as well.
And the most wished-for software: animation software, adaptive learning and games, which took the top three spots last year too.
Electronic textbooks are up, in use by 18 percent of re- spondents this year, compared to 13 percent in 2016. About three-quarters of faculty (74 percent) are using a mix of digital and paper-based textbooks, while 8 percent are
going the traditional route with paper. Seventy-eight percent use free or low-cost open educational resources for instruc- tion, up from 73 percent last year — good news for those grappling with the high cost of traditional textbooks.
Blending and Flipping
The blended model is most common among our respon- dents, 73 percent of whom employ a mix of online and face- to-face instruction in their courses. That’s up from 71 per- cent in 2016. While 15 percent of faculty are still teaching exclusively face-to-face, 12 percent have gone fully online
(an increase from 10 percent teaching online in 2016). Diving deeper into the topic, we asked faculty both about
the extent of their use of blended learning and about their plans for exploring that mode in the future. Seventy-six percent of respondents said all or some of their classes are blended (a notch up from 75 percent last year), while 9 percent plan to use the blended model in the next year or are considering the option.
One faculty member in West Virginia brought up the issue of cheating: “The biggest challenge I see to technology in the classroom, especially with online classes, is the verification