New Report: Survey Results Show U.S. Higher Ed Faculty Increasingly Reliant on Digital Course Materials

From Bay View Analytics:

Three-quarters of higher education faculty in the U.S. teach at least one fully face-to-face course, compared to 40% teaching fully online or 23% teaching a course that combined face-to-face and online components. These results come from Bay View Analytics’ most recent survey of over 3,400 higher education faculty in the U.S.

While most courses are in-person for students, this proportion is far below the 96% of faculty who reported teaching fully face-to-face before the COVID-19 pandemic. This ratio of in-person to online and blended courses, unchanged from last year’s results, represents a new status quo in higher education. Survey results also show that faculty textbook use and perceptions on digital versus print course materials were steady year-over-year, though there is a growing trend in the use of digital materials options for students. Almost all required textbooks are offered to students in a digital format. For 2023-24, just 8% of courses only offered a print textbook, down from 12% last year and 19% the previous year.

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Additionally, in 2023-24 more than half of faculty (56%) were aware of open educational resources (OER) —teaching and learning materials that are free to use, adapt, and share— and 41% used OER as a required or supplemental material in their courses. While awareness and use of OER dropped slightly compared to last year, levels remain above or on par with those seen two years ago.

Resources

Report (1): Approaching a New Normal? Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2024 ||| PDF Version

Also Published Today:

Report (2): Conflicted Digital Adoption: Educational Resources in U.S. K-12 Education, 2024 ||| PDF Version

Research Brief: Digital and OER Textbook Adoption

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