BISG's ongoing research into student and faculty attitudes toward content in higher education is now available for purchase as an immediate download.
For the fourth year, Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education and its complementary report on faculty attitudes (now in its third year) makes sense of the often contradictory information about what students and faculty say they want and what they buy. If you serve the ever-changing higher ed marketplace, this research and trend analysis will help you refine your business strategies and better meet the evolving needs of the college market.
Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education, Volume 4, reports on:
How students and faculty define and seek value in learning solutions and where reduced study time falls on the list of student priorities
The technologies that students and instructors currently see as most valuable
The most important factors in student buying decisions and how assignments by faculty influences the buying behavior of their students
The devices that students are using to read and study digital content, what devices they plan to buy, and when these devices will become adoptable for the entire class
The impact of Amazon's entry into the rental market
The research tracks the continued acceleration in the scope and pace of technology-driven changes in content delivery. The research shows which technological innovations are most valued by students and instructors and where the preferences for print over digital content are most fluid. It also delves into the parallel evolution of the classroom, including the plateau of MOOC's, growth in online classrooms, and the surprising effectiveness of competence-based education in developing higher-order skills such as critical thinking.
The core study, Student Attitudes toward Content in Higher Education, Volume 4 is available for purchase as a downloadable PDF report here. Faculty Attitudes, its companion study, is available here. Sample pages and the actual survey questions can be accessed here. The data from both student and faculty surveys is also available via dynamic, online access through the Real-Time Reporting (RTR) portal. For more information or to access the full data set, please contact Nadine Vassallo in the BISG office at info@bisg.org. Sample survey questions can also be downloaded
BISG thanks Diamond Sponsor MBS Direct, Platinum Sponsors Barnes and Noble College and McGraw-Hill Education, and Gold Sponsors Cengage Learning, Follett Higher Education Group, Pearson, and Blackboard for making Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education Volume 4 possible. Faculty Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education was sponsored by Cengage Learning and Barnes & Noble College.
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