The document presents a study examining the web 2.0 behavior and technological habits of architecture students at TU Graz over six years, highlighting differing preferences for platforms like Twitter and Dropbox. It identifies trends in technical equipment, internet access, communication behavior, and e-learning platform usage based on students' fields of study. The findings indicate a continuous increase in mobile device usage and internet accessibility, along with slight variations in technology habits across different academic clusters.

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Architecture Students Hate Twitter
and Love Dropbox!
Does the Field of Study
Correlates with Web 2.0 Behavior?
Martin Ebner
Walther Nagler
Martin Schön

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Gamification?
Mobile Learning?
Informal Learning?
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Anyway
… students of tomorrow

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„Our students have changed
radically. Today‘s students are no
longer the people our educational
system was designed to teach.“
Mark Prensky 2001

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Research Questions:
Which trends can be seen towards:
• Technical equipment
• Internet access at study home
• Communication behavior
• Useage of e-learning platforms (secondary school level)
• Web2.0 competence
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Study over 6 years (n=4205):
• Term 2007/2008 (n=578)
• Term 2008/2009 (n=821)
• Term 2009/2010 (n=757)
• Term 2010/2011 (n=702)
• Term 2011/2012 (n=632)
• Term 2012/2013 (n=715)

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Usage of Web2.0 and Internet offers of first year’s students at TU Graz in 2012, part
1

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Usage of Web2.0 and Internet offers of first year’s students at TU Graz in 2012, part 2

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Special Focus On:
Correlation of
Field of Study : Web 2.0

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• Cluster 1 “Architecture”: Architecture
• Cluster 2 “Civil and Mechanical Engineering”:
Civil Engineering with Environment and Construction Management, Mechanical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics
• Cluster 3 “Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science”: Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Audio
Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Telematics, Computer Science, Software
Development and Business Management
• Cluster 4 “Mathematics and Physics”:
Mathematics, Technical Physics, Geomatics Engineering, Earth Sciences
• Cluster 5 “Chemistry and Biology”:
Chemistry, Chemical and Process Engineering, Molecular Biology,
Environmental Systems Sciences / Natural Sciences-Technology

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Listing of variables resulting from discriminant
analysis; residual variant causes the rank list

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Graphical illustration of the results of the
discriminant analysis; the right sided numbers
stand for the clusters 1 to 5

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Discussion and Conclusion
• Increase of mobile devices unbroken
• Mobile Internet as well increasing
• Internet for cloud purpose upcoming
• there is a slightly verifiable difference between
the technological habits according to the fields
of study.

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Information Technology Services
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
martin.ebner@tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
http://elearning.tugraz.at
Dept. Social Learning