Survey of Art Department Chairs and Deans: Use of Distance Education
ISBN: 9781574408430
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Primary Research Group
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Education;

This report looks closely at how college and university art departments used distance learning just before and during the pandemic, and their plans for the post pandemic future for this technology. Thirty one art department chairs and deans from the USA and Canada provide detailed data on how they use distance learning and their opinion of it. They also comment on the types of art courses most and least amenable to distance learning approaches and how the technology may drive new course and program developments. They also describe how instructors adjusted to the new requirements, by altering use of materials and developing new at home kits, for example.Just a few of the report's many findings are that:An average of 57.97% of courses (with a median 50%, minimum of 5%, maximum of 100%) in the respondents' respective departments were taught largely at a distance during the fall semester of 2020.81.67% of private college staff were working from home in February 2021.Canadian faulty were significantly less likely than US faculty to feel that teaching online was less effective than in-person teaching.Data in the 54-page report is broken out by many variables related to the individual survey participants and their institutions including but not limited to size of the art department measured by faculty size, and by number of art majors, host country, tuition level, public/private status, and college type or Carnegie class.


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