In the spring of 2017, Durham joined 73 other post-secondary institutions from the UK and 10 international ones to take part in the JISC Student Digital Experience Tracker survey. At Durham, two versions of the survey were deployed, an on-campus and an online learners survey. The on-campus survey was targeted at first- and second-year undergraduates and taught Master’s students, the second at Masters students studying online (distance learners). Almost 1,000 students responded, providing a representative sample of the on-campus population, yielding a great deal of insight into the student experience of the University’s digital technologies.
The survey was managed by members of the Learning Technologies Team. It was delivered using the JISC Online Survey tool, via a custom integration in duo. This generated a unique access token for every respondent, ensuring that all responses were from the target population of students and that each respondent could only complete the survey once.