Learners' Voices @ USI & SUPSI

eLab and Gender Service of the USI & SUPSI have conducted a research on the use of ICT by their students. The research "Learners' Voices @ USI & SUPSI" is now available in Italian.

As base for the research a questionnaire was submitted to all students of the USI & SUPSI to analyze their familiarity with ICT and to see the impact of the new tools on their lifes and studies.

Here are some results:

• Consulting search engines and using e-mails are among the most diffused online activies.
• Reading online newspapers is quite common; however, printed newspapers are still more read.
• Students are quite familiar with ICT. However, they use them more to consult and retrieve information rather than to publish content themselves.
• ICT have become an integral part of leanring practices.
• Students consider e-learning as important and useful for their learning practices, however they do not consider it as fundamental.
• There are some differences based on gender: Male students use ICT more often and in a more differentiated way (e.g. to download podcasts, selling and buying online, subscribe to RSS feeds etc.), whereas female students use ICT more for social networks and interaction.

You can read the whole research report in the attached PDF.