GOING DIGITAL: Faculty Pespectives on Digital and OER Course Materials | The Campus Computing Project

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-31

Summary:

"Quality and the cost of course materials for students emerge as the key factors that drive the decisions of college faculty about textbooks and other course materials. And although the movement to digital course content seems inevitable and a majority of the surveyed faculty express interest in adaptive technologies for their courses, it is also clear that college and university faculty have real concerns about some of the proclaimed instructional benefits of going digital. These are the key findings from a fall 2015/winter 2016 survey of 2,902 college and university faculty at 29 two- and four-year colleges and universities sponsored by the Independent College Bookstore Association (ICBA) and conducted for Kenneth C. Green of Campus Computing for the ICBA. Not surprisingly, faculty identified their own assessment of the quality of course materials as the top issue in their selection of course materials (97 percent rating as important/very important).  Ranked second was the cost of course materials for students (86 percent), followed by the comments of students or teaching assistants and also comments from colleagues (tied at 71 percent).  In contrast, just over two-fifths of the survey participants indicated student or instructor supplements were important/very important in their decisions about course materials, and only a fifth said comments and reviews on public web sites had a major impact on their decisions about course materials ..."

Link:

http://www.campuscomputing.net/goingdigital2016

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Tags:

oa.new oa.surveys oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.quality oa.attitudes oa.education oa.students oa.colleges oa.universities oa.reports oa.books oa.hei

Date tagged:

03/31/2016, 08:37

Date published:

03/31/2016, 04:37