Residential vs Commuter Users
- Former user (Deleted)
Presenters: Steve Lonn & Stephanie D. Teasley, University of Michigan
Abstract:
We explored differences between instructors and students at a large residential campus with instructors and students at a smaller commuter campus who all used Sakai as their primary Learning Management System (LMS). We examined users' survey responses, focusing on items related to their beliefs about materials management and about interactive teaching and learning. We also investigated the Sakai event logs to see if actual system use was consistent with preferences expressed in the survey data.
The presentation will highlight findings that show that users from both campuses rate highly all activities and tools available within the project site capability of Sakai. The results suggest, however, that residential students value activities and tools for materials management more than commuter students, while commuter students value activities and tools fostering interactive teaching and learning more than residential students. Instructors at both campuses tend to rate the tools and activities similarly. The log data indicated that while tool activation was consistent across campuses, the average percentage of total events for interactive teaching and learning tools (e.g., Discussion, Forums) was significantly higher on the commuter campus. The implications of these findings for suggestions about improvements in Sakai will also be discussed.