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2010 ICT survey:
Staff and students
perceptions on ICT
access and use at CPUT
Daniela Gachago, Eunice Ivala, Fundani
Sheila Kumalo, Centre for eLearning

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Key trends in T&L
 Cloud based computing & implications
 Collaboration is key
 Availability of bandwidth will change user behaviour dramatically
 Expectation of ubiquituous learning
 Students want to use own technology for learning
 Small computing devices, such as smart phones, replace traditional
computers
 Personalised learning experience vs one size fits all

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What about CPUT?

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Research
 2010 RIFTAL funding
 Data collection: 3rd term 2010
 Target group: lecturers & students
 Adapted survey tool from UCT
 Online & offline
 Responses:
 105 academic staff
 1324 students (mainly first and second year, 81%)

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Research questions
1. Access to ICTs on and off campus
2. Experience and perceptions of ICTs in Education
3. Usage of ICTs for teaching, learning, work, research
& social life

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1. Access and use of ICTs on campus

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Staff: Access to ICTs on campus
PDA Type of ICTs used
8%
3G phone
17%
Desktop
82%
23%
Use wireless
Laptop Internet at
63% work

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Staff are happy with their equipment...
Are happy
66% with their
computers
67%
Are happy
with software
67%
Are unhappy
with teaching
Are happy venues
63% with the
Internet

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Ease of access on campus - students
Access to ICTs on  But
significant difference by
campus campus & Faculty
Difficult Easy
 Most difficult: Mowbray campus
 Least difficult: H&W, Business
30%
70%

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Internet quota - students
Internet quota Impact on academic
appropriate? performance
yes no no opinion yes no no opinion
22%
30% 33%
40%
38%
37%

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Impact of internet quota on T&L…
 Assignments are late
 Assignments not properly researched
 I can’t do my research
 I submit my school work late and under pressure
 If I can’t access the Internet then my assignments are late…
 …and my lecturer doesn’t want to hear my explanations for being late

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Use of Internet for
social purposes on campus
Staff... Students....
Use Internet for
92% Use Internet for
social purposes
for less than 25%
61% social purposes
for less than 25%
of their time of their time

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Staff: major challenges on campus

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2. Experiences with ICTs

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Staff: experiences
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
scores
70% Staff perceive
their skills as
good or Own Passion
excellent Previous experiences
Availability of resources
ICTs are Students expectations
89% essential for
education
Intitutional policies
Mangement expectations
Peer pressure

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Student: experiences with ICT
have been using
60% ICTs for more
than three years
 Africanlanguage
speakers significantly
less experienced
16% for less than 1
year

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Level of computer skills
Level of computer skills
 African language
Poor Average
3% students perceive
Good Excellent
their skills as
15% significantly lower
29% than others
53%

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Adequacy of
students’ computer skills at uni
I feel I have enough  Only 45% of lecturers believe that
skills to use ICTs students have adequate computer
skills (especially HW & AS)
Disagree Agree Don’t know  30% of lecturers feel that students
2%8% have better skills then themselves
(least confident: Education Faculty)
90%

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3. Use of ICTs for T&L

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Use of ICTs for T&L
Staff: how many Students: how many
courses use ICTs ? courses use ICTs ?
none
7% very few 15% 5% none
14% very few
39% about 30%
14% half about half
31% most
most
26% 19% all
all

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Use of Blackboard
Staff: us e of BB for
te ac hing
Ys
e
No
53% 47%
Main users: Business, Engineering, Informatics and Design

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Staff: Use of Blackboard for....
Course materials Tools
 95% use it for notes  73% announcements
 89% for presentations  73% discussions
 86% subject guide  61% assignments
 38% video files  60% assessments
 30% audio files  50% gradebook
 43% groups

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Use of emerging technologies
Staff Students
Tool n % n %
External mail 41 55% 586 56%
Images and Videos 39 52% 473 46%
Mobile technologies 26 35% 346 35%
Wiki/document sharing 25 34% 506 49%
Mailing lists/newsgroups 23 31% 446 44%
Social networking 23 30% 335 32%
Discussion forums 20 27% 406 41%
Instant Messaging 16 21% 225 22%
Blogging 14 19% 187 19%
Podcasting 9 12% 171 17%
Alternative LMS 7 9% 286 30%
Twitter 4 5% 156 16%

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Staff: reasons for usage...
 access to current, relevant, global, immediate information
 adapt to new generation of learners, tools that are already used
by students
 diversity of learning experiences
 independence from CPUT systems
 mash up/integration

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30. + Mobile learning
54% Predominantly for
social purposes
Study help through
61% mobile phones
57% Study related online
information
28% Info from lecturers
22% Lecture recordings

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Conclusions
 Pockets of innovators, but far from mainstream, significant differences in usage
by Faculty
 Relative high satisfaction with access on campus…but could be improved…labs
and teaching venues
 More use of mobile learning, ubiquitous wireless access points, move from labs
to laptops?
 Increase Internet quota for students
 Targeted support for individual groups of staff and students
 Recognize champions who use ICTs creatively and widen application of
technology in T&L
 Create a space to engage in a discussion around the use of institutional and non-
institutional technologies to advocate comprehensive of use of ICTs in teaching
and learning

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Thank you!
 Reports are available through MIS site or by emailing me
gachagod@cput.ac.za
 More information on blog www.edutechcput.wordpress.com