Transcript UCISA TEL Survey 2012

Richard Walker, University of York
Jebar Ahmed, University of Huddersfield
Julie Voce, Imperial College London
ALT-C 2012
11-13 September 2012
About the Survey
 National survey, undertaken by UCISA, with financial
support from the JISC & backing from HeLF into matters
relating to Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL).
 Questionnaire sent to HE institutions across the UK:
- completed Jan – Mar 2012
 Builds upon similar surveys conducted in 2001, 2003,
2005, 2008 and 2010. At each stage a longitudinal
analysis was undertaken.
 2010 and 2012 surveys also include case studies to
support the report, enabling investigation of themes such
as QA & TEL governance.
The 2012 Survey
 98 responses from 165 HE institutions (Response rate 59%)
 Good spread of responses across the UK (by country, by
mission group and by type of institution, i.e. Pre-92, Post-92
and HE Colleges)
 Sent out to institutional Heads of e-Learning in January 2012
 Not getting same cohort each time; but results do show
consistency
Survey themes
1. Drivers for TEL
2. Strategies influencing TEL
3. TEL tools
4. Supporting TEL
5. Outsourcing support and provision
6. Future challenges
Drivers for TEL
 Top ranked drivers (2003 – 2012)
Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching
2. Meeting student expectations
3. Improving access to learning for students off-campus
 Achieving cost & efficiency savings remains one of lowest ranked
drivers (18/22), along with formation of partnerships (20th) &
collaborative course developments with other institutions (22nd ).
1.
 Encouraging TEL development
Availability of TEL support staff
2. Central university & departmental senior management support
 Access to tools (2nd in 2010) & availability of local champions (1st
in 2008 & 2003) no longer leading encouragers for TEL
development.
1.
Barriers to future development
 Lack of time (still the most significant barrier)
Longitudinal view of the top 7 of 16 rankings
Barriers – lack of…
2012
2010
2008
2005
2003
Time
1
1
1
1
2
Money
2
2
3
2
1
Departmental/school culture
3
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-
-
-
Recognition for career
development
4
4
6
4
-
Academic staff knowledge
5
3
2
7
4
Academic staff commitment
6
5
-
-
-
Incentives
7
6
8
5
8=
Strategies influencing TEL
 There is a high level of agreement across the sector (72%) that
strategies are influencing TEL implementation.
 Internal strategies
 Almost all respondents (93%) identified their Teaching and Learning
strategy as a key influence on TEL development
 The biggest change since 2008 has been the declining role of elearning strategies (down from 76% to 43%).
 An emerging trend for 2012 is the embedding of TEL concerns within
Corporate strategies – most evident in Post-92 institutions (84%)
 External strategies
 Those from the National Funding Councils and JISC remain highly
influential across the HE sector.
TEL tools - centrally supported
Tool
VLE
Other tools
Plagiarism detection
E-submission
E-assessment
E-portfolio
Wiki
Blog
Podcasting
2012
100%
2010
2008
96%
92%
87%
79%
76%
74%
72%
62%
92%
89%
80%
72%
75%
74%
69%
77%
64%
72%
68%
69%
 Document sharing & lecture capture (51%) are emerging areas for TEL support.
TEL tools – not centrally supported
Tool
Social networking
Blog
Document sharing
Social bookmarking
Wiki
E-assessment
E-portfolio
Podcasting
VLE
Lecture capture
2012
73%
60%
52%
40%
36%
23%
23%
22%
21%
20%
2010
81%
59%
48%
51%
27%
25%
41%
23%
-
2008
46%
30%
34%
26%
11%
31%
26%
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TEL tools – VLEs
 Institutional VLE
 88% of respondents use either Blackboard or Moodle as their main
institutional platform.
 Blackboard Learn remains the leading enterprise solution (39%);
Moodle has increased in usage (up from 11% in 2008 to 31% in
2012).
 Overall VLE use
 Moodle is the most commonly used VLE platform (58%); Blackboard
Learn is 38%.
 Negligible use of other open source & commercial solutions: e.g.
Sharepoint (6%); Sakai (3%)
 20% of institutions are using hosted services for their VLE provision.
Services optimised for mobile devices
Service
2012
Access to library services
37%
Access to email
35%
Access to course announcements
31%
Access to timetabling information
26%
Access to course materials & learning resources
21%
Access to personal calendars
21%
Access to communication tools
20%
Disciplines and their use of TEL
More
Less
Support for TEL
 Different types of unit delivering TEL support: IT,
Educational Development Units, Learning Technology
Units.
 Central and/or departmental/school support
 Economic climate affected TEL support:
 44% report a reduction of staff
 22% report restructure of departments
 Positive about future as 46% anticipate increase in staff
Outsourcing
Support
Provision
 Top 3 outsourced support:
 Student email (67%)
 VLE (36%)
 Staff email (33%)
 Top 3 outsourced services:
 Student Email (66%)
 VLE (28%)
 Staff Email (19%)
 Slightly more respondents
 56% of respondents
outsource only out of hours
than within working hours.
 42% considering
outsourcing support for the
VLE
considering outsourcing VLE
provision
Demands on support
2012
2010
2008
Mobile technologies
59%
23%
26%
E-assessment
31%
23%
14%
Lecture capture
22%
16%
11%
Change of VLE
13%
8%
4%
Multimedia
12%
23%
26%
E-portfolio
11%
15%
12%
 Podcasting has reduced from 23% in 2008 to 0% in 2012
 Web 2.0 also becoming less of a concern having been top demand in 2010
(30%), now only 8%.
Challenges over next 2-3 years
2012
2010
2008
Mobile technologies
26%
6%
5%
Staff development
18%
36%
49%
E-assessment
15%
16%
7%
Legal/policy issues
14%
9%
-
Lack of support staff/relevant skills
11%
-
11%
Managing/meeting expectations
10%
5%
8%
Managing
multimedia
 ...
10%
4%
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Accessing the Report
 The 2012 Survey report is now available on the UCISA
website at:
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/bestpractice/surveys/tel.aspx
 Case studies of institutional TEL developments will be
published in a companion report, targeted for publication by
the end of the year.
 Comparative analysis is planned with the Irish Learning
Technology Association (Autumn 2012).
 Feedback on the Report (question-set and findings) would be
greatly appreciated to inform future surveys.