Question 10 asked about which programs students were enrolled in. Nothing too exciting there. Question 11 looks at Internet browser usage by students. Almost 90% of the students use either IE or Firefox, with IE still leading the way by more than a 2-to-1 margin. Still, the usage of Firefox has increased in the past [...]
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Question #9 in the 2009 LSC Student Technology Survey took a look at student uses of the LSC student e-mail system. Each student is assigned a student.lsc.edu address when they enroll at LSC. We have a college policy that makes e-mail an official means of communication for the college. We have the normal issues of [...]
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Question 6: During the current term, are you a part-time or full-time student? Full-time = 59%, part-time = 40%. Question 7: Will you be employed during the upcoming (current) semester? No = 18.5%, Part-time = 55%, Full-time = 24.5% (Link to image of questions 6 & 7) Question 8: How many hours each week, on [...]
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The wording for this question is a bit long-winded, but I really wanted to find out about the students’ self-assessment of their computer skills and ALSO about whether they have concerns about whether their skills will be sufficient for taking online courses. Next time I will try to find a better layout for the question [...]
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Question 3: How many email accounts do you have and check regularly? As the graphic shows, only 13% have a single e-mail account that they use on a regular basis. 33% have three or more accounts. At LSC we assign every student an LSC-hosted e-mail account and we have a policy making e-mail the official [...]
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This will be the first post of several as I report out on many of the results gathered from the 2009 Student Technology Survey at Lake Superior College. This year we had the largest number of submissions in the eight years that I have offered this survey. A total of 1,080 students submitted the voluntary [...]
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This is a mosaic of the people I follow on Twitter. This group has quickly become the most important source of my day-to-day learning about technology uses in education. Thanks a hat tip to Britt for pointing me to the Twitter mosaic maker.
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