Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Best Practices in Online Education for Research Universities, ISBN 978-1-57440-637-5
This 150-page report presents results of a survey of 73 faculty from 48 research universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK and elsewhere, about how they have adjusted to the sudden shift to online education precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The study presents data and commentary from faculty about a myriad of issues pertaining to their online efforts. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: what has been the role of academic libraries this transition? Which technologies are being used and by what kinds of faculty and in what circumstances? Who is using Zoom? Skype? Canvas? WebEx? Google Hangouts? Microsoft Teams? The report covers a very broad range of applications with highly specific data about the use of each, enabling readers to pinpoint the use of Zoom by subject area, or the use of Skype by the age of the end user. The study also gives detailed commentary from the 73 participants about the problems that they are encountering with various applications and how they are overcoming them. Participants also discuss their use of and preference for synchronous and asynchronous methods, and their general use in online instruction of YouTube and other video sharing sites, as well as use of class listservs, Twitter, Facebook and other communications vehicles.
In addition to technology the study covers trends in grading, work time commitments, the role of the learning management system, and faculty evaluation of help in developing online instruction from the academic library, the IT department, instructional designers, centers for teaching and learning, and dedicated distance learning units.
Data in the report is broken out by a broad range of personal and institutional variables such as age and gender, and academic field of instruction, as well as institutional size, type, national origin and tuition level.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
• 60.27% of faculty sampled had taught a distance learning course prior to the inception of the coronavirus epidemic.
• WebEx was being used by 22.22% of business/economics professors in the sample
• All art, theatre and music instructors in the sample were using Zoom in their instruction.
• Instructors from universities in the lowest tuition range were much more likely than others to prefer course delivery through the institutional learning management system.
• Older instructors and those in the arts and humanities were more likely than others to cite the library as a major source of support in moving to and conducting classes online.
For further information view the product page for this report on our website at:
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=611
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