Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Answering the Value Question: Does Technology Impact Student Success

CIOs concerned with perceived value of all IT services
- study to profide evidence, examining the technology for student perspective across 16 community colleges in Maryland
- it investigated student skill levels, usage patterns, preferences for technology, value for students perspective

(eek - there must be 250+ people in the session)

Answering the value question:
This study is heavily based on ECAR study, Chickering and Gamson and drilling role of LMS. There are a lot of common elements in this session to what I'm going to talk about tomorrow. I'm wondering how unusual student use/expectation surveys really are any more. The speakers are making it sound as if they are doing something really different, but I don't think it is - I need to make sure I don't do the same thing tomorrow.

They haven't started talking about the focus of the session yet, they are claiming technology does impact upon student success but the study examines whether students like the features of technology, not correlated through to success. No they haven't looked at student performance impacts, no they aren't looking a representative sample, no they haven't considered anything other than student satisfaction. All the things that I thought the session was going to be about are all the things they would like to do in the future (but no plans as yet)

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