In the Dark on Digital Learning | Digital Learning - Inside Higher Ed

College IT officials don't believe campus leaders are particularly informed or engaged in digital learning, new survey results suggest, as Lilah Burke, Reporter at Inside Higher Ed says. 

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The results of a new survey offer presidents, provosts and CFOs a wake-up call about how they’re perceived by their colleagues in IT and digital learning. The reviews are less than glowing, with only about 40 percent of IT officials reporting that college leaders are “well informed” about digital learning and digital transformation.

Presidents or CEOs, along with CFOs, fared particularly poorly, with slightly more than 30 percent of IT officers saying those colleagues are “very engaged” and about 40 percent saying they are “well informed.” Provosts were spared the worst in the assessment, with more than 40 percent of IT officers saying provosts or chief academic officers at their institutions were “well informed” and “very engaged.”

Casey Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, which conducted the survey released this morning, said the fact that many administrators are judged to be neither well informed nor very engaged is striking. “Their engagement, their understanding is critical in terms of campus strategies and moving forward,” he said...

IT officials at 235 institutions took part in the survey, with those at private four-year colleges being the most prevalent, with 90 respondents, and those at private research and doctoral universities being the least prevalent, with 12 respondents.
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Source: Inside Higher Ed