Share Paper: Mobile, Social, Smart, and Media Driven The Way Academic Net-Generation Has Changed Within Ten Years

  1. Walther Nagler, Graz University of Technology, Educational Technology, Austria
  2. Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology, Educational Technology, Austria
  3. Martin Schön, Graz University of Technology, Educational Technology, Austria

Abstract: Starting in 2007, Graz University of Technology has conducted an annual poll amongst its new students about their IT preferences and competences. After ten years of survey it is time to consider the overall results. Based on more than 7700 data records we can obviously state that freshmen have changed significantly according to their IT devices ownership, their communicational behavior using IT devices, as well as their usage of Web 2.0 tools. But there are some facts that have remained unchanged, such as the very low usage of Twitter or the usage of e-learning platforms at secondary school level, which ...