Trends in media usage by students can affect the way they learn. Students
demand the use of technology, thus institutions and instructors should meet
students requests. This paper describes the results of a survey where drivers
in the use of media show continuously increasing or decreasing values from the
first to the fourth year of study experience at the Western University, Canada,
highlighting trends in the usage of new and traditional media in higher
education by students. The survey was used to gather data on students media
usage habits and user satisfaction from first to fourth year of study and found
that media usage increases over the years from first to fourth. The
presentation of data using bar charts reveals a slight increase over the years
in students owning notebooks or laptops off-campus and a significant increase
from first to fourth year of students accessing online academic periodicals and
journals. Another noteworthy finding relates to fourth year students being more
conscious of the quality of information that they read on the Internet in
comparison to students in first year, even though this is a slight year on year
increase.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1507.0685
Web 2.0 has ubiquitously penetrated academia. The dissemination of online information services in higher education has led to substantial changes in faculty teaching methods as well as the learning and study behavior of students. For example, the use of online services, such as Google and Wikipedia, has become mandatory not only during teaching and learning activities but also during leisure time for students and faculty. At the same time, traditional information media such as textbooks and printed handouts still form the basic pillars of teaching and learning. This article explains the preliminary results of a survey about media usage in teaching and learning conducted with Western University faculty and students, highlighting trends for the usage of new and traditional media in higher education. Furthermore, the article intends to participate in the ongoing discussion of practices and policies that purport to advance the effective use of media in teaching and learning.
Nowadays, university students are facing a large number of highly diverse media, including conventional books as well as online-based mobile applications -all used to support learning. Especially the internet with its connected social media services or e-learning possibilities induced significant changes in society and in the landscape of higher education during the last years and still do so. The four universities RWTH Aachen University, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology conducted an exploratory student survey on media and information use, in order to expand the empirical database on that topic. A special focus was laid on mobile learning. In this context the survey asked for hardware and software the students are using and for those situations where they already got in contact with any kind of mobile learning -e.g. by using special apps for learning or because they were asked by their teachers to use a mobile device. The results of the survey elucidate that the use of online media and especially social media as well as mobile devices in higher education are in need to be promoted in future. Furthermore, it reveals demands for action in the field of media competency concerning students as well as teachers.
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