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Varsity students prefer lectures to computers, says study
Monday October 08, 2012 10:02:08 PM,
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Toronto: Despite the
increasing presence of social media and the internet, university
students still prefer old style lectures, being less enthusiastic
about using computer-based information and communication tools (ICTs),
says a study.
Surprisingly, instructors were more fluent with the use of emails
than with social media, while the opposite was true for students,
that is, they preferred an engaging lecture rather than a targeted
tweet, says a new Concordia University study, led by Vivek
Venkatesh.
Twelve universities across Quebec recently signed up to be part of
the first cross-provincial study of perceptions of ICT integration
and course effectiveness on higher learning, according to a
Concordia statement.
Venkatesh, associate dean of academic programmes and development
within the Concordia School of Graduate Studies, has a particular
interest in how education is evolving within post-secondary
institutions.
Venkatesh partnered with Magda Fusaro from UQAM (Universite du
Quebec a Montreal) Department of Management and Technology, to
conduct a pilot project before rolling the project out to
universities across the province.
"We hit the ground running and received an overwhelmingly positive
response with 15,020 students and 2,640 instructors responding to
our electronic questionnaires in February and March of 2011," says
Venkatesh.
"Our analysis showed that teachers think that their students feel
more positive about their classroom learning experience if there
are more interactive, discussion-oriented activities. In reality,
engaging and stimulating lectures, regardless of how technologies
are used, are what really predict students' appreciation of a
given university course," says Fusaro.
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