Student Technology Use

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Student Technology Use

iPads in Labs

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Twenty-four iPads and a versatile open-source course management system are enabling thousands of undergraduate students to increase hands-on time in their introductory chemistry labs without incr…

Smartphones for Learning: The Yin and the Yang

November 8, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

Over 3,000 students participated in a research study at Seneca College that explored their perceptions about the ways in which their smartphones could be used as learning tools. This session will h…

Enterprise Strategies and Planning Necessary to Deliver On-Demand SaaS for Students and Faculty

May 17, 2012 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2012

Indiana University, in collaboration with the University of Iowa and the Johns Hopkins Medical School, is demonstrating how software as a service can provide a fresh approach to meet the demands of…

Is Your University Ready for M-Learning? Embracing and Supporting Mobile Devices in Higher Education

May 31, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

This session will address mobile devices in higher education and the issues faced in supporting them. We'll cover survey data from Air University on students' use of mobile devices and se…

ECAR National Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology, 2011

December 15, 2011

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has experienced a groundbreaking year in 2011, with an aggressive research agenda implementing two versions of its annual National Study of Underg…

Mobile Learning: Beyond Content Delivery - Sponsored furniture provided by Herman Miller

February 14, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

Jetpack: Right-Sized Mobile Content for Learning Anywhere Kyle D. Bowen, Director, Informatics, Purdue University Every student makes the choice for how and where learning will take p…

Reflecting on Two Years of iPad Use at Stanford University School of Medicine

February 22, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference 2012

Stanford University School of Medicine gave iPads to 91 first-year students in the MD curriculum in the fall of 2010 and to 91 students again in the Fall of 2011. We also offered a pool of iPads to…

ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2011—Slide Presentation

October 14, 2011

Beginning in 2004, ECAR has conducted an annual study of undergraduate students and information technology (IT), seeking to understand patterns of ownership and usage, skills with and preference…

What Undergraduates Say About Technology: Results from the 2010 ECAR Student Study

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

The speakers will present the key findings of the seventh annual ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology, 2010, including student use of social networking and web-based tools and In…

Undergraduates Speak about IT: Results of the 2007 ECAR Survey

October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

What information technologies are used by undergraduates? How does IT contribute to their academic experiences and learning? What has changed since 2005? ECAR presents key findings from the fourth …