On- and off-campus computer usage in engineering education Palmer, Stuart 2000, On- and off-campus computer usage in engineering education, Computers & Education, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 141-154, doi: 10.1016/S0360-1315(00)00014-2. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads palmer-onoffcampus-post-2000.pdf Author's post print application/pdf 129.08KB 259 Title On- and off-campus computer usage in engineering education Author(s) Palmer, Stuart orcid.org/0000-0002-2517-0597 Journal name Computers & Education Volume number 34 Issue number 2 Start page 141 End page 154 Publisher Elsevier Science Place of publication Oxford, England Publication date 2000-02 ISSN 0360-1315 1873-782X Keyword(s) post secondary education adult learning country-specifc developments distance education and tele- learning media in education Summary Computers and information technology play an important role in engineering education at the School of Engineering and Technology, Deakin University, Australia. Experience has shown that there are significant demographic differences between on- and off-campus engineering student groups. It was thought that the differences in the student groups might also lead to differences in computer usage patterns between the groups. A survey on computer usage was undertaken to determine the computer usage patterns of students at the commencement of their studies. The survey revealed differences between on- and off-campus students in whether students indicated they were regular computer users (on-campus = 77.2%, off-campus = 94.7%), the average reported hours per week usage of computers (on-campus = 6.0 h, off-campus = 23.3 h), the reported source of computer access, whether students indicated they were regular users of e-mail (on-campus = 29.8%, off-campus = 73.7%), whether students indicated they were regular users of the World Wide Web (on-campus = 38.6%, off-campus = 68.4%), and the reported source of World Wide Web access. It is proposed that the differing personal circumstances of the two student groups may contribute to the difference in survey responses. Language eng DOI 10.1016/S0360-1315(00)00014-2 Field of Research 130306 Educational Technology and Computing Socio Economic Objective 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article HERDC collection year 2000 Copyright notice ©2000, Elsevier Science Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30029939 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Institute of Teaching and Learning School of Engineering and Technology Higher Education Research Group School of Engineering Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 07 Sep 2010, 11:47:32 EST Tue, 07 Sep 2010, 13:30:55 EST Wed, 08 Sep 2010, 11:24:07 EST Wed, 08 Sep 2010, 11:27:22 EST Wed, 08 Sep 2010, 11:28:08 EST Thu, 09 Sep 2010, 08:27:43 EST Fri, 13 Dec 2013, 07:01:42 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 16:17:24 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 15:06:41 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 09:17:21 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:03:47 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 9 times in TR Web of Science Cited 14 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 2022 Abstract Views, 259 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 07 Sep 2010, 11:47:28 EST by Stuart Palmer