The majority of the responding students feel they have the skills and knowledge to effectively use technology. The ability of faculty to use technology as an effective teaching tool is an issue for some students. Students express concerns about faculty who lack the proper skills to use the technology and faculty who misuse the technology. The primary purpose of this study was to see what role, if any, technology plays in facilitating learning. Survey results indicate that technology does indeed have an important role in improving conditions for good learning in MTSU classrooms.
Students find that certain technologies better promote certain learning activities.
Ninety-five percent of the respondents indicate that the organization of content covered is best facilitated by the instructor's use of computer applications to present lecture outlines and to demonstrate specific concepts. For example, we watch videos about ads that we would otherwise just have to imagine. The majority of the responding students identify electronic mail as the technology that best facilitates their interaction with the instructor, collaboration with other students, and feedback from the instructor. However, only fifty-percent of them have communicated electronically with an instructor or classmates about class projects. Its use in the classroom makes me feel good about my education and also teaches me things I will need to know when I enter the workforce.