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Teaching with a laptop

Laptop Use by Instructors responding to IT Survey

from Question 13 on the IT survey:

Never Used
20.6%
Used last year
63.7%

There was no difference in the average age of users and nonusers.

Percentage of laptop use by:

Assistant Professors: 73.9%

Associate Professors: 73.7%

Full Professors:           64.2%

Lectures:                     62.5%

Teaching assistants:   48.0%

Mean size of “largest course taught”by instructor

users of laptops in teaching: 87.0 students

non-users of laptops in teaching: 51.2 students

By rogers

Professor of Resource Economics and Associate Provost for Academic Tecnology

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