Undergraduate Faculty: A Tough Target Group
Obstacles: lack of time, tenure and review considerations, lack of awareness about available technologies
Undergraduate faculty:
- ¾ have used WWW often or sometimes (1997), but not in the classroom (only 18% - 1998)
- The gap between those NEVER using computers in the classroom, and those using them OFTEN, is the largest for untenured faculty, increasing towards tenure review
- Only 12% of surveyed faculty saw themselves as having a use for HPC applications in courses (higher for Sciences and Engineering)
- 11% of faculty have students working with computer models OFTEN