Education Policy, Business and Technology

Faculty on the Fence About Providing Computing Devices to Students

Campus Technology: About a quarter of faculty (23 percent) fully support the idea of their institutions providing computing devices to all students. And another 30 percent are in favor of device handouts, but with reservations. These insights and more were part of Campus Technology's first-ever Teaching with Tech survey, which polled faculty members across the country about their use of technology for teaching and learning, their wish lists and gripes, their view of what the future holds and more.

Relatively few schools provide devices to students, and when they do, it frequently takes the form of subsidies that students can use to acquire devices from a fixed list of choices at the college bookstore. Nevertheless, a majority of instructors are inclined to like the idea to some extent. When the share of teachers who favor handing out devices is added to the share of teachers who favor the idea but with some reservations as well as those who could go either way, the overall count is 85 percent.

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