What Students Use – Results of a Survey on Media Use Among Engineering Students

Dominik May (), Karsten Lensing, A. Erman Tekkaya, Michael Grosch, Ute Berbuir and Marcus Petermann
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Dominik May: TU Dortmund University, Engineering Education Research Group, Center for Higher Education
Karsten Lensing: TU Dortmund University, Engineering Education Research Group, Center for Higher Education
A. Erman Tekkaya: TU Dortmund University, Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL)
Michael Grosch: Institute of Education and Vocational Training, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ute Berbuir: Center for Higher Education and Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction TU Dortmund University, TU Dortmund University
Marcus Petermann: Center for Higher Education and Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction TU Dortmund University, TU Dortmund University

A chapter in Engineering Education 4.0, 2016, pp 699-711 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Nowadays, university students are facing a large number of highly diverse media, including conventional books as well as online-based mobile applications - all used to support learning. Especially the internet with connected social media services or e-learning possibilities induced significant changes in society and in the landscape of higher education during the last years and still do so. The four universities RWTH Aachen University, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology conducted an exploratory student survey on media and information use, in order to expand the empirical database on that topic. A special focus was laid on mobile learning. In this context the survey asked for the hardware and software the students are using and for moments in which they already got in contact with any kind of mobile learning – e.g. by using special apps for learning or because they were asked by their teachers to use a mobile device. The results of the survey elucidate that the use of online media and especially social media as well as mobile devices in higher education are to be promoted in future. Furthermore, it reveals demands for action in the field of media competency concerning students and teachers.

Keywords: Media Use; Engineering Education; Social Media; Academic Teaching; Mobile Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46916-4_55

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