Conflicted Views of Technology: A Survey of Faculty Attitudes - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed

The proportion of college instructors who are teaching online and blended courses is growing. So is their support for using technology to deliver instruction. But their belief in the quality and effectiveness of online courses and digital technology isn’t keeping pace. Those are among the findings -- conflicting and confounding, as is often the case -- of Inside Higher Ed’s 2018 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology, published today in partnership with Gallup. Among other highlights of the 2018 survey: Forty-four percent of instructors said they had taught an online course, up from 42 percent last year and 30 percent in 2013. (Thirty-eight percent said they had taught a blended course.) Professors who have taught online overwhelmingly say the experience improved their teaching and made them more likely to experiment with new approaches.  https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/survey-faculty-views-technology-explores-online-teaching-oer-assessment