Faculty
Technology Survey
Fall, 2003
Social
Research Laboratory
A sample of 653 faculty was selected from a list of all full-time and part-time faculty. Copies of the survey were mailed to all faculty in the sample. They were given the option of mailing the survey back or completing it on the web. Approximately ten days later, we began calling faculty who had not responded to the survey. We received surveys from 332 faculty. The response rate for the survey was 72.5% of all eligible faculty. (Faculty who do not have offices were excluded from the telephone sample. A small number of faculty without offices did return the mailed survey. Faculty not teaching in the fall semester were also excluded.) Data were weighted to reflect the population of all faculty in terms of tenure/tenure-track and lecturer and full time/part time.
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Almost all tenure/tenure-track faculty (99%) and
full-time lecturers (96%) have workstations.
Almost two-thirds (65%) of part-time lecturers have workstations. Keep in mind that faculty who do not have
offices were excluded from the telephone sample. A small number of faculty without offices did
return the mailed survey.
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Approximately 77% of tenure/tenure-track faculty
received laptops as part of the university’s laptop initiative. This drops to 50% of full-time lecturers and
25% of part-time lecturers.
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Approximately 65% of tenure/tenure-track faculty are
very satisfied with the laptop they received as part of the initiative and
another 25% are somewhat satisfied. Only
10% are less than satisfied. Similar
percents are found for full-time and part-time lecturers. Only 8% of full-time lecturers and 13% of
part-time lecturers are less than satisfied.
For those faculty who are less than satisfied, information is available
in the open-ended responses on what aspects of the laptops they were
dissatisfied with.
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Additional information is available on operating
systems, size of hard drive, and memory for faculty not receiving laptops as
part of the initiative. Information is
also available on printers and ergonomics.
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Faculty report that they would be likely to use the
following technologies often or in every class if it was available. Percents are included from the 2001 survey
for the purpose of comparison.
Tenure,
Tenure Full-time Part-time
Track Lecturers Faculty
2001 2003 2001 2003 2001 2003
Overhead projectors 64% 59% 57% 55%
49% 60%
Ethernet connection to use 45% 55% 40% 45% 30% 45%
Web in class
LCD projectors 45% 57% 30% 50% 25%
43%
Laptop 44% 68% 46% 67%
28% 58%
Wireless internet access 35% 58% 26% 50%
22% 52%
Stationary computers 37% 52% 25% 43%
27% 43%
Electronic distribution 26% 24% 22% 27%
23% 29%
system for video
Stationary data projectors 22% 31% 16% 24% 16% 17%
Mobile data projectors 17% 24% 10% 5% 7%
7%
Slide projectors 12% 13% 12% 14% 9%
6%
Document cameras 11% 29% 8% 29%
8% 12%
DVD player NA 32% NA 36%
NA 33%
Video tape player NA 52% NA 55%
NA 50%
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Faculty report that they currently use the following
technologies/resources with students.
Percents are included from the 2001 survey for the purpose of comparison.
Tenure,
Tenure Full-time Part-time
Track Lecturers Faculty
2001 2003 2001 2003 2001 2003
Email 95% 95% 93% 96% 86% 92%
Library’s printed materials 75% 66% 55% 64% 57% 54%
Web 73% 83% 76% 70% 61% 60%
Library’s electronic
resources 69% 68% 46% 57% 58% 36%
Document exchange 37% 32% 27% 32% 29% 22%
Cd-roms 35% 39% 34% 30% 36% 40%
BlackBoard 30% 43% 40% 36% 35% 41%
Computer simulations 28% 25% 18% 19% 22% 16%
Specialized software 25% 27% 8% 23% 13%
6%
Web to display students’
work 18% 18% 15% 14% 7%
17%
Chat or teleconferencing 11% 7% 5% 14%
6% 8%
Library’s electronic
reserves NA 37% NA 30%
NA
21%
DVD’s NA 24% NA 32%
NA 24%
Streaming video NA 15% NA 14% NA
11%
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About 35% of faculty report that they have a website
for their classes (41%--tenure/tenure track, 33% full-time lecturers, 30% part-time lecturers).
This is an increase from 21% of faculty who reported that they had a
website for their classes in 2001.
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About 38% plan to teach a class where the class
would be web enhanced (46%--tenure/tenure track, 38%--full-time lecturers, 32%--part-time
lecturers). This is an increase from 20%
of faculty who planned to teach a web-enhanced class in 2001.
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About 10% plan to teach a class where the entire
class would be online (14%--tenure/tenure track, 4%--full-time lecturers, 9%--part-time
lecturers). This is an increase from 4%
of faculty who were planning to teach a class online in 2001.
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Only 14% of faculty agree
that courses taught on the web are just as effective as the traditional
classroom (15%--tenure/tenure track, 25%--full-time lecturers, 12%--part-time
lecturers).
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Approximately 35% of faculty feel that the speed of
the current campus buildout for technology is about right, while 5% feel it is
too fast and 32% feel it is too slow.
Another 28% are not sure. The
percents are about the same for tenure/tenure-track, full-time, and part-time
faculty.
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Additional information is available in the appendix
on creation of websites, where websites are hosted, what faculty have on
websites, whether their class meets online or in class, whether they have a
personal homepage, and whether they would like assistance in producing their
website.
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Approximately 75% of all faculty use the Help Desk
with most of these faculty using the Help Desk several times a year. This is an increase from 61% who reported
using the Help Desk in 2001. Part-time and
full-time lecturers are less likely to use the Help Desk than tenure/tenure-track
faculty.
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The faculty who use the Help Desk are quite
satisfied with the services they receive.
About 50% are very satisfied and 36 % are somewhat satisfied. This is approximately the same level of
satisfaction reported in 2001.
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Of those with a network connection in their office,
about 60% are very satisfied and 24% are somewhat satisfied. This is approximately the same level of
satisfaction reported in 2001.
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About 84% of faculty report having internet access
from home. This is about the same level
of access from home as in 2001.
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About 30% of those with internet access from home
have dial-up access from CVIP. Another
9% have DSL from CVIP.
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Of those with internet access from home, about 37%
are very satisfied and 34% are somewhat satisfied. This is approximately the same level of
satisfaction reported in 2001.
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Approximately 44% of faculty feel
it is very important to have statewide or nationwide dial-up access to CVIP and
another 16% feel it is somewhat important.
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Approximately 60% say they are very interested in
having high-speed internet access through CVIP and another 23% are somewhat
interested.
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Additional information is available on how much
faculty pay for Internet access from home.
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Information is available on the types of software
that faculty feel they need on their faculty workstation and the types of
software they think students need on their student workstations.
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Information is also available on the types of
software faculty use to send and receive e-mail.
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Information is available on the obstacles that
faculty feel stand in the way of using technology effectively in the classroom.
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Information is available on faculty who have a
purchased a computer for their home use and on the use of that computer for
work activities.