Rich McCue: “In addition to the technology questions we’ve been asking UVic Law students over the past ten years, we decided for the first year to ask more detailed questions about student use of tablets and e-readers for academic use, along with questions about their usage of “cloud” services for file storage and collaboration. This survey was completed by 126 incoming and transferring law students, which is a strong 90% plus response rate.” Some of the survey results summarized as follows:

• “89% of incoming law students own “Smart Phones” that can browse the internet (up from 84% last year and 50% two years ago), with 48% of the total being iPhones, 29% Android and 11% Blackberry (Blackberry usage down from 27% last year).
• 31% of students own tablet devices or ebook readers, up from 19% last year.
• When it comes to reading school related documents, students report reading those documents in bound books 46% of the time, on laptops 35% of the time, on laser printed pages 16% of the time, and on tablet devices 3% of the time.
• 99% of students own laptops. 49% of laptops are Mac’s, and 48% Windows.
• The students’ average typing speed is 49 wpm.
• 68% of all students bring their laptops to school most days.
• 75% of students use laptops to take class notes, 63% use pen and paper, 6% use tablets and 3% use their cell phones.
• 53% of students use Gmail as their primary email account, 7% use UVic email and 20% Hotmail…”