Ten
percent of respondents plan to offer courses through distance learning
during the 2001-2002 academic year. Most of these courses will be taught
through the Schools of Agriculture (27% of the total), Engineering (19%
of the total), and Education (11% of the total).
One
half of 1% report spending no time communicating via email each week,
while almost half (47%) spend between 1 and 5 hours each week doing
so. On a weekly basis, 7% do not spend any time and 63% spend between
1 and 5 hours on the Internet for teaching or research purposes. Sixty-nine
percent spend at least some of these hours working on-line from an off-campus
location and 63% believe that Purdue provides adequate off-campus Internet
and email access.
Differences
by School
Email
usage is similar across the schools, although fewer faculty in Health
Sciences (6%) and Technology (9%) than average (15%) spend 11 or more
hours per week communicating via this method. Faculty in Consumer and
Family Sciences and the Libraries are the most likely to use the Internet
for teaching and research purposes 11 or more hours per week (22% and
27% respectively do so, compared to an average of 13%). Faculty in Management
and Veterinary Medicine are the least likely to use the Internet to
this extent (4% and 5% respectively do so).
Those
most likely to spend at least six hours each week working off campus
on the Internet are faculty from the schools of Technology (24% do so),
Science (27% do so), and Education (32% do so), compared to an average
of 20% across the schools. Management and CFS faculty are the most satisfied
with the off-campus Internet access that Purdue provides (74% from each
school are satisfied), while faculty from Engineering are the least
happy with it (only 53% report satisfaction).
Differences
by Rank
Professors
spend more time than their junior colleagues communicating via email
each week (57% spend at least 6 hours compared to 48% of the other ranks),
while assistant professors are the most likely to spend at least 6 hours
on the Internet each week (40% do so compared to 28% of associate and
25% of full professors). Similar percentages across the ranks work on-line
from an off-campus location each week and believe that Purdue provides
adequate off-campus Internet and email access.
Differences
by Gender
Females
are somewhat more likely than males to spend at least 6 hours per week
communicating via email (56% do so vs. 51% of males). They spend equivalent
amounts of time on the Internet, but females are more likely do so from
an off-campus location (26% spend at least 6 hours doing so compared
to 18% of males). They shared the same perceptions about the adequacy
of Purdue’s off-campus Internet and email access.
Differences
by Race
Asian
American faculty spend the most time communicating via email each week
(62% spend at least 6 hours compared to 52% of Caucasians and 45% of
underrepresented minorities). They, along with underrepresented minorities,
use the Internet for teaching and research purposes substantially more
than Caucasians (50% of underrepresented minorities and 48% of Asian
Americans spend at least 6 hours each week compared to 27% of Caucasians).
Asian
Americans are the most likely to work on the Internet from an off-campus
location (29% do so at least 6 hours per week compared to 19% of Caucasians
and 14% of underrepresented minorities), while Caucasians are the most
likely to be satisfied with Purdue’s off-campus Internet and email access
(63% vs. 58% of Asian Americans and 57% of underrepresented minorities).
