The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) has just released new findings from surveys conducted in Spring 2015 and analyzed in two publications, Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education, Volume Five Report 2, and its companion study, Faculty Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. Both reports are available for immediate download. The raw data is also available via a dynamic online portal called Real-Time Reporting (RTR), which provides real-time web-based access to the raw survey data that is drillable, sortable, and accessible on demand.
The reports reflect five years' of survey data, providing an unparalleled assessment of the trends transforming higher education content and consumption patterns. Taken together, the reports also consider a wide range of other trends in the ways students and faculty members select, acquire, assign, teach, and consume educational content in various formats.
More than 50% of students now rate the Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) experience as superior to their course experiences using only traditional textbooks. Students place the highest value on those approaches—like ILS and adaptive learning tools—that help them succeed, increase their grades, and reduce study time. Students, institutions, and faculty also increasingly define successful outcomes in terms of achieving defined learning objectives, rather than specific grades.
The reports also provide an overview of the changing nature of student populations and the most important strategic initiatives being adopted by institutions to improve student success and reduce drop-out rates, from drops in the percentage of tenured faculty to institutions' use of big data to increasing support for active learning models.
The newly-released Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education, Volume 5 Report 2 was based on a Spring 2015 survey of 1,600 students at a range of colleges nationally. It provides vital information about the velocity of the trends and research published in Report 1, which was based on a Fall 2014 survey. Faculty Attitudes was based on a Spring 2015 survey of over 1,600 faculty members.
The reports were prepared by the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. with reporting and editorial analysis by Steve Paxhia and with data provided by Nielsen Books and Consumers, used with permission of the Nielsen Company.
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