Construction begins -- and students have how many devices?

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Road closing

Dec 14

Construction

The adventure begins -- of course one of the questions I get is, well, will all of the students have mobile technology or will I need to provide some technology for the folks who don't have a device?


The latest ECAR Report on Undergraduate Students and IT, reviewing student responses from 161 institutions around the world gives hope that in a couple of years, when the new classroom building opens its doors, this is no longer an issue.\

Some of the numbers on the report:
92% of all surveyed students have at least two internet-capable devices, and only 2% have none. (Figure 5).  Over 56% of students would like instructors to take advantage of the fact that students have laptops.  As Auburn University tends to have fewer minority and lower-income students than many community colleges or urban higher education institutions may have, this interest of students to use laptops in class is probably going to be even higher - because more students will have laptops.  Lower-income students tend to rely more heavily on their smartphones as that may very well be the only truly mobile device they own.

For the full report, please consider going to http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ss15/ers1510ss.pdf.  What other information from the report do you find relevant for your teaching or for your institution to consider?