The Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning

69 Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, serves a diverse population of fulland part-time, traditional and nontraditional students. In the 2000–2001 academic year, 19,121 students enrolled in 6 undergraduate colleges and 35 graduate studies areas. MTSU’s administration promotes instructional technology as a crucial part of higher education for faculty and students. The Office of Information Technology (OIT) embarked on a survey of MTSU faculty in spring 1998 and of students in spring 1999, to assess the impact of technology on teaching and learning. However, because of ongoing innovations and wider availability of new technology, a strong possibility existed that the findings of these surveys had become outdated in two years. Therefore, in fall 2000 and spring 2001, follow-up surveys targeted the same populations.