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More Student-Professor Chat Sessions Wanted

By John Adkins

According to Wired Campus:

When asked what kind of educational technology they wanted most, students?replete with iPods, laptops, and social-network pages on Facebook?say the thing they don?t have and wish for most is an online chat with their professors.

In a survey released today by CDW-G, the technology vendor, 39 percent of college students say they want regular online chats with faculty. The surveyors contacted 401 students to get this information.

The students are likely to be disappointed, according to the report. Only 23 percent of IT staff surveyed?there were 301 of them?said their campus offered that kind of electronic faculty-student contact.?Josh Fischman

Full post as published by l r c - o r b i t ... the usd research satellite on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).