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Laptops Everywhere – Oasis or Mirage

Laptops Everywhere – Oasis or Mirage. SIGUCCS Management Symposium April 7, 2008 Jim Bostick. Aaarrrggghhh!!!. Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, Virginia ~32,000 Students 13 Schools Undergraduate, Graduate, and First Professional Arts, Business, Engineering, etc

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Laptops Everywhere – Oasis or Mirage

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  1. Laptops Everywhere – Oasis or Mirage SIGUCCS Management Symposium April 7, 2008 Jim Bostick

  2. Aaarrrggghhh!!! www.ts.vcu.edu

  3. Virginia Commonwealth University • Richmond, Virginia • ~32,000 Students • 13 Schools • Undergraduate, Graduate, and First Professional • Arts, Business, Engineering, etc • Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, etc www.ts.vcu.edu

  4. Student Laptop Ownership • Educause ECAR Undergraduate Study, 2006-7 • 73.7% of all undergraduates own laptop • 83.9% of 18-19 year olds own laptop • VCU Freshman Survey 2007-8 • 91.6% own laptop www.ts.vcu.edu

  5. Poll • How many of you know or think that at least 80% of incoming students own laptops? 35 • How many have laptop requirement? 3 • How many think that • at least 70% carry their laptops? 1 • 50% - 70% carry their laptops? 0 • 25% - 50% carry their laptops? 9 • fewer than 25% carry their laptops? 20 www.ts.vcu.edu

  6. What Does This Mean? • Every student owns a laptop, so computer labs are no longer needed! • Cost of equipping and managing labs can be recovered and used elsewhere • Lab space can be reclaimed and used for other purposes www.ts.vcu.edu

  7. Ah, well, maybe not… • Hawkins and Oblinger call that a myth • “The Myth about the Need for Public Computer Labs, ‘Students have their own computers, so public labs are no longer needed.’” Educause Review, Sep/Oct 2007 www.ts.vcu.edu

  8. Experience at VCU • Students identity additional open computer labs as 2nd in importance only to additional wireless coverage • Funding for additional lab easy – Student Technology Fee • Space an entirely different matter! • Provost wanted proof of need www.ts.vcu.edu

  9. SIGUCCS Listserv Informal Survey • “With the increase in student laptop ownership, are you seeing a decrease in the need for student computer labs?” • 11 responses • 8 – no decrease or an increase in demand • 2 of these indicated all labs can be reserved as classrooms • 1 on these indicated a committee studying eliminating labs to change student behavior • 3 – some decrease in demand www.ts.vcu.edu

  10. Poll • Do you provide student computer labs? • Yes - 35 No - 0 • Do your open labs also serve as classrooms? • No - 8 Yes, some - 25 Yes, all - 0 • What demand are you seeing for student computer labs? • Decrease - 1 No change - 9 Increase - 14 www.ts.vcu.edu

  11. What Did VCU Do? • Provost provided space • Smaller than the funds we had for PCs • Had to double as a classroom • Great ideas • Collaborative work areas • Large monitors, software for team work • Reality • 30 seats required for classroom • Standard rows w/ instructor in front only way to accomplish www.ts.vcu.edu

  12. Discussion • How Are You Meeting Demand? • Open labs double as classrooms? • Reduce/close labs to force students to carry laptops? • Virtual labs? • Other??? www.ts.vcu.edu

  13. Jim Bostick Director, User Services Virginia Commonwealth University jsbostick@vcu.edu www.ts.vcu.edu

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