调查显示英学生希望更好地访问数字资源

数千名学生参与了英国大学和学院招生服务(Ucas)的数字资源调查

十二月 2, 2022
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一项最新调查显示,几乎所有英国学生都认为他们需要教科书的数字副本,并希望这些资源在需要时就可用、无需等待名单。

调查还发现,一些学生表示,如果能更好地访问数字资源,他们的心理健康会得到改善。

在一份新的政策说明中,英国高等教育政策研究所(Higher Education Policy Institute,Hepi)的政策经理劳拉·布拉辛顿(Laura Brassington) 分析了英国大学和学院招生服务(Ucas)从10月开始的关于学生数字化学习体验的问卷调查结果。

她写道,尽管数字学习并非新事物,但新冠疫情加速了它的发展,但挑战依然存在。

在接受调查的2000多名学生中,有95% 的受访者表示他们应当在有需要时获得教科书的数字副本而无需等待。

大约一半受访者表示,他们对在需要时通过图书馆获取课本感到担心,其中60%的受访者表示,更广泛的数字资源使用权限将能改善他们的心理健康状况。

有3/4的受访学生“强烈地”希望教科书数字副本可用且无需等待名单,而只有1/3的学生希望获取纸质副本。

布拉辛顿博士说:“随着高等教育机构在面对面授课和在线授课间寻求平衡,听取学生群体的意见非常重要。”

“我们应该倾听那些表达了对自身福祉担忧者的意见,并通过在课程期间提供讲座录音和缩短数字资源访问等待时间来提高其可访问性。”

说明中提出的其他建议包括提供一个易于使用的数字学习平台,并提供讲座的数字记录,而这是所有学习资源中学生需求最大的一项。

与Hepi合作发布该报告的Kortext营销总监罗宾·吉布森(Robin Gibson)表示,学生们认识到数字学习的好处及其提供的灵活性。

他说:“学生们越来越依赖并感谢大学图书馆提供的学习资源,同时希望获得具有一致性的、直观的用户体验来轻松访问资源。”

Ucas的问卷调查发现,只有1/6受访学生“总是”或“经常”购买课本而非从图书馆借书。

布拉辛顿博士说,这可能有助于解释为什么英国高等教育机构的图书馆支出显著增加。

patrick.jack@timeshighereducation.com

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Reader's comments (4)

I am surprised to see that students cannot get hold of digital copies since I have now switched to ebooks for my modules so there is no problem with waiting. The library at my university provides access at a level that enables all students to download the text. It is worth considering when looking for module texts.
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Shame publishers do everything they can to prevent libraries from being able to provide these resources. £16,000 a year for access to one textbook is not uncommon - and some publishers absolutely refuse to licence to libraries at all! This is an enormous challenge for libraries and something we have yet been able to get government attention on! Check out #ebookSOS for more information.
"Robin Gibson, marketing director at Kortext, which partnered with Hepi to publish the report, said students recognise the benefits of digital learning and the flexibility they provide." Cui Bono? A policy note/report, co-published and probably comissioned, by the marketing chief of a company making its money from providing digital copies of textbooks. Yeah right...LOL Besides this, I agree with the above comments that the main bottleneck for easy access to digital materials are not universities or libraries but publishers and their exessive pricing and restrictive licencing models. This study is barking up the wrong tree. Yet, one cannot be surprised if one looks into to the "corporate partners" of HEPI, counting amongst that list leading publishers themselves (and of course Kortext and wait, THE too). "Thinktanks" and NGOs of this kind are part of the problem and not a solution because they frequently obscure structural issues with this kind of reductive and simplistic policy advice, not only in HE.