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U.S. higher education faculty’s views on digital education trend toward new post-pandemic status quo

OAKLAND, Calif. – Three-quarters of higher education faculty in the U.S. report they 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 the most recent survey results of over 3,400 faculty from Bay View Analytics. While most courses are in-person for students, this proportion is far below the 96% of faculty who reported teaching fully face-to-face pre-pandemic.

Level of OER awareness among U.S. K-12 teachers reaches an all-time high

OAKLAND, Calif. – Nearly one-third of K-12 teachers in the U.S. are aware of open educational resources (OER)—teaching and learning materials that are free to use, adapt, and share—according to the latest annual survey of K-12 educators conducted by Bay View Analytics. This level of awareness represents an all-time high in the five years of the survey and an increase of four percentage points since last year. In addition, 30 percent of teachers report using OER.

Majority of U.S. college students are worried about meeting their course material costs

Download report (PDF): https://www.bayviewanalytics.com/reports/2023_student_course_material_affordability.pdf.

August 26,2024, The latest national survey conducted by Bay View Analytics on course material affordability for U.S. college students found 71% of undergraduate students say that they're worried about meeting their course material costs for the current academic term; 30% saying they are “moderately” or “extremely” worried about meeting the costs. Over half of students who participated in the survey say that their course material costs per term is over $200.

Over half of students report paying $200 or more for their course materials for the term.

This national research project, supported by Affordable Learning PA (ALPA) and the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI), was conducted in conjunction with the state of Pennsylvania’s comprehensive survey on course material affordability. The goal was to raise understanding of the impact of course material choices on students' academic and general life.

Research illustrates that while GenAI could ease ongoing challenges in education, just 1 in 5 say their school is ready

February 6, 2024
While three-quarters of higher-education trustees (83%), faculty (81%) and administrators (76%) agree that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will noticeably change their institutions in the next five years, community college trustees are more optimistic than their community college counterparts, with (37%) saying their organization is prepared for the change coming compared to just 16% of faculty and 11% of administrator respondents.
Those findings are from the 2023-2024 Digital Learning Pulse Survey conducted by Cengage and Bay View Analytics with support from the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), College Pulse and the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) to understand the attitudes and concerns of higher education instructors and leadership.

Affordable Learning PA (ALPA) and PALCI Reveal 2023 Survey Results on Course Material Affordability in Pennsylvania

Pie chart of degree students worry about the cost of course materials.

November 15, 2023
Affordable Learning PA (ALPA) and the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI) are pleased to announce the results of their comprehensive survey on course material affordability in Pennsylvania in 2023. The Pennsylvania Course Materials Cost Survey, conducted in partnership with Bay View Analytics, collected 4,306 responses from students across 14 participating institutions during the spring and fall of 2023. Its goal is to understand the impact of course material choices on students' academic and general life.

Digitally Established: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2023

September 6, 2023
Nearly two thirds (64%) of U.S. higher education faculty are aware of open educational resources (OER) and nearly one third (29%) require an OER in their course, according to an annual survey of faculty and administrators. Both awareness and use of OER—which are openly licensed and thus free to use, edit, and share—jumped by seven percentage points compared to the 2021-22 school year, reaching their highest levels seen in the 12 years the survey has been administered.

Curricula of Many Sources: Educational Resources in U.S. K-12 Education

September 6, 2023
More than three quarters (77%) of K-12 teachers create their own classroom materials to supplement or replace a textbook, and among those who do use a textbook, the same percentage (77%) offer it to their students in digital format, according to the results of an annual survey of K-12 educators and administrators. This gravitation toward self-created and digital materials is complemented by an increasing awareness of open educational resources (OER), which are free to use, edit and share. More than one in four (28%) teachers are now aware of OER and Creative Commons licensing—an uptick of six percentage points compared to the 2021-22 school year.

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The Digital Transformation of the Community College

Feburary 1, 2023
The latest Bay View Analytics report The Digital Transformation of the Community College shows that digital transformation is wide-ranging and fundamental among US Community Colleges. Based on data from the Digital Learning Pulse Survey, the report confirms the pervasive nature of digital learning changes from student, faculty, and administrative perspectives.

Digital Curricula Use in Higher Education Continues to Grow Even with Return to In-Person Courses

June 30, 2022
While almost all higher education faculty have returned to their physical classrooms this school year, their reversion to print textbooks and other instructional materials they preferred before the pandemic hasn’t been nearly as swift, an annual survey of educators by Bay View Analytics found. Faculty and administrators expressed growing acceptance of digital courseware this year compared to earlier surveys, with 74% of both faculty and administrators saying that digital materials provide students with greater flexibility.

Survey Finds Public Schools Aren’t Abandoning Digital Resources Despite Return to In-Person Instruction

June 30, 2022
While almost all teachers have returned to their classrooms this school year, their reversion to textbooks and other physical instructional materials they preferred before the pandemic hasn’t been nearly as swift, an annual survey of educators by Bay View Analytics found. More than nine in 10 teachers reported having returned to in-person instruction. But only 30 percent of teachers report their instructional materials are entirely or predominantly physical, down significantly from 2018-19 prior to the pandemic when 68 percent said physical materials were the norm.

Latest Canadian digital learning report shows the lessons that institutions have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic

Likelihood of different offerings for Winter term

June 27, 2022
Bay View Analytics is pleased to have partnered with the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association / Association canadienne de recherche sur la formation en ligne (CDLRA/ACRFL) on their latest national report, "Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.” This year’s report explores the profound and lasting impact that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on post-secondary education in Canada.

New survey highlights divide between post-pandemic predictions and current state of online learning in US K-12 education

Spring 2022 survey of teachers and administrators

June 14, 2022
Bay View Analytics, in partnership with the Clayton Christensen Institute, is proud to announce the results of the latest in a series of survey reports examining the evolution of education in the US in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The return to in-person instruction in Fall 2021 sparked discussion about the current state and potential future of online learning in US education. New data, sourced from the fourth installment of ongoing, nationally representative surveys of hundreds of teachers and administrators, provides unique insights into how teaching has evolved, how these changes were perceived, and what teachers and administrators anticipate going forward.

New survey reveals specific challenges US K-12 teachers are still facing in their return to in-person teaching

December 7, 2021
Bay View Analytics and its partner, the Clayton Christensen Institute, today announce the publication of new factsheets, Reaching toward Recovery. This latest report of K-12 teachers and administrators reveals that while schools are back in-person, things are far from normal. The factsheets are based on the newest in a series of national surveys conducted in October 2021 of 1,074 respondents including teachers and administrators. Overall, the results show that schools are starting to rebound from the impact of the pandemic, with 96% of classes returning to in-person instruction compared to 34% in Spring 2021.

Babson Survey Research Group announces rebranding to Bay View Analytics, and the expansion of consulting services

September 9, 2021
The Babson Survey Research Group is now Bay View Analytics. Our new name better represents the comprehensive suite of consulting services in survey design and statistical analyses we currently offer. These new services build on nearly two decades of research design, sampling, survey design, and statistical analysis expertise.

Bay View Analytics Conference Presentations

Bay View Analytics Presentations at Upcoming Conferences

Bay View Analytics is participating in multiple conferences focused on education research and online learning. Our presentations cover our most current research on distance learning and open educational resources in US K-12 and higher education, as well as offering an overview of trends over the last decade.

New survey uncovers the K-12 models and educational technology that will outlast the COVID-19 pandemic

August 31, 2021
The pandemic experience informs educators' plans to improve post-pandemic learning and experiences for their students. This first-of-its-kind study reveals the range of options employed by teachers and districts during the pandemic.

Survey finds major—and potentially lasting—changes in K-12 schools' curricular choices during the pandemic

K-12 Teachers were new to online instruction

August 20, 2021
An annual survey conducted by Bay View Analytics of K-12 teachers and administrators in the U.S. found that the sudden shift to remote instruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant and potentially lasting changes to the landscape of instructional materials.

About Half of Faculty are More Positive About Online Learning Today Than Pre-Pandemic, and They Expect to Keep New Teaching Techniques in Place Post-Pandemic

March 24, 2021
As the pandemic has moved U.S. higher education online, half of faculty (51 percent) are more positive about online learning today than pre-pandemic. Most faculty (71 percent) said their teaching in Fall 2020 was “Very different” or included a “Number of Changes” and almost half (47 percent) expect those changes to remain post-pandemic. The data is from the third edition of the Digital Learning Pulse Survey, an ongoing four-part series to better understand the needs of colleges in the wake of the disruption brought on by COVID-19.

STEM Education in the Time of COVID

March 12, 2021
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and Bay View Analytics, in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere, Carolina Distance Learning, DigitalEd, and support from HHMI BioInteractive has released a new report exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on STEM faculty who underwent a hurried transition to online instruction in higher education.

OER initiatives produce a measurable increase in faculty OER adoption

The Impact of OER Initiatives on Faculty Selection of Classroom Materials

August 13, 2020
The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the U.S. is on the rise in higher education driven by an increase in awareness of OER among faculty. Research found that OER initiatives implemented by institutions, college and university systems, and multi-state compacts have resulted in a measurable increase in the number of faculty who adopt OER.