EDUCAUSE Technology Research in the Academic Communities

Dear Virginia Tech Undergraduate Student,

Thank you for your interest in the 2024 EDUCAUSE Student survey. Your response will help us learn how to provide you with better technology services at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech is interested in improving students’ experiences with information technology in higher education. The results of this survey are very important to us. Your participation in the study is voluntary, and your responses will be completely confidential.

The primary benefit of participating in this study is that Virginia Tech will receive information about how our student community views and uses technology, and this information can help inform decisions about instructional practices and technology support. This information can help our IT programs and services evaluate student technology experiences and expectations.

We encourage you to participate, and the web-based survey will take up to 15 minutes to complete.

Conditions and Stipulations

1. This online survey is being conducted for research and benchmarking purposes. The data resulting from this anonymous survey will be made available to researchers at EDUCAUSE and your academic institution. Data will be available as individual responses and in aggregate formats. Some data may be reported to the general public in the form of public presentations, reports, journal or newspaper articles, and/or in books.
2. Your responses to this survey are collected anonymously. IP addresses and other personally identifiable data are not collected. Due to this method of data collection researchers are unable to remove your survey response should you wish to withdraw it.
3. You cannot be identified by your non-written survey responses. There are several open-ended questions in this survey. It is best not to include personally identifiable information in these responses. Any personally identifying, non-anonymous responses you provide will be removed from the dataset before the researchers analyze results.
4. The online survey involves questions about your technology experiences and expectations in higher education. Beyond demographics, all questions will only address technology and education-related issues.
5. This survey is expected to take about 15 minutes to complete. Taking the research survey is voluntary. If you do not wish to participate, there will be no penalty or loss of benefits. If you do not participate, it will not affect your college/university status in any way. If you choose, you may stop your participation at any time. If you choose to participate, you may skip any question you do not wish to answer, with the exception of a few required screening questions at the beginning of the survey.
6. If you have any questions about the research survey and your rights as a participant, you can contact the research team through mmccormack@educause.edu. You will not directly benefit from taking the survey. Your responses will provide data to inform higher education institutions on how to best improve technology experiences for students and faculty at colleges and universities.
7. EDUCAUSE owns and maintains the data collected for the project. De-identified individual response data are stored on EDUCAUSE computers and/or in cloud-based storage systems. The data are stored indefinitely for use in analysis and benchmarking. Data are password-protected and accessible only by authorized individuals.
8. For the purposes of reducing duplicate responses, this survey uses cookie-based duplicate protection. To learn more about how these cookies are stored and used, please review Alchemer’s privacy policy.
9. By selecting “I agree” below, you are agreeing to participate in this survey, according to your rights as a voluntary research participant, as outlined above, and you provide consent to EDUCAUSE to use your survey responses as outlined above. (If you are viewing this on a mobile device, this option will appear on the next page. Please use the arrow to advance.)

Please go here to complete the survey: 

https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7706965/2024-Students-and-Technology-Survey?eid=60009350&us=y 

EDUCAUSE Technology Research in the Academic Communities. This is a Virginia Tech research study (IRB # 16-178). For more information contact  Karen Herrington (kmherrin@vt.edu). This research has been reviewed by the Virginia Tech Institutional Review Board (IRB). You may communicate with them at 540-231-3732 or irb@vt.edu if you have questions or concerns about your rights as a research subject.

Thank you very much for your participation!