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My guess is there is zero difference between the use of technology by MSU students and the average college student at any university. I always considered the media surveys of "the most wired campus" as nonsense. (There was a time when Dartmouth was arguably the most wired and wireless campus, but they were small in size and huge in investment. Early university adopters who thought it was important to win surveys spent huge dollars building out wired and wireless networks, or lying about coverage.) The whole exercise is useless. You might as well ask how many students had cars in 1921 or cell phones in 1997. It has nothing to do with the university. /rich On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Graham Lee Pierce <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Karl, > > UARC conducted the MSU Internet and Mobile Technology Survey in March-May > 2011, and got responses from 1,263 students, faculty, and staff at MSU. It > included questions about Internet use and social media (among other > things). > You can view the questionnaire at http://techsurvey.usability.msu.edu/ > > We're still writing up the results for publication/press release, but I'd > be > happy to share the findings from specific questions upon request. While I > can send you the handout that we presented at the MSU Mobile meeting, it > was > aimed at mobile developers, so it only has data for the questions that we > felt they'd be most interested in. If you (or anyone else) would like > results from other questions, please email me. I already have the responses > to each question broken down by group (faculty, students, staff), and > student year (Fresh, Soph, Junior, Senior, Grad). > > Also note that we're going to release the entire dataset to the public > (with > IP addresses removed to protect privacy) so that others can conduct > independent analyses of the data, and dig into it as much as they'd like. > We're also hoping to conduct the survey annually, so we're interested in > feedback on changes that should be made. > > -- > Graham L. Pierce > > Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting > University Outreach and Engagement > Michigan State University > 95 Kellogg Center > East Lansing, MI 48824-1022 > > Phone: (517) 884-0364 > Email: [log in to unmask] >