Empirical study of engineering students' satisfaction with modern educational technology

The purpose of the study outlined in this article was to examine students' satisfaction with modern educational technology in Chongqing Three Gorges University (CTGU). Students were asked to rank services offered by CTGU and to complete a questionnaire to measure their attitude to technology that aids teaching, extracurricular learning technologies and on-line resources. Mixed research methods (questionnaire and interviews) were applied for collecting the primary data, as were descriptive statistics using frequency distributions by which to analyse the selected data. Results indicated that students mostly are satisfied with extracurricular learning technologies, while four important sub-factors contributing to the students' engineering learning are: course Web site (86.2%), interactive whiteboards (85%), social media (85%) and e-library databases (82%). Finally, it is recommended that teachers adopt Web-based solutions for their students, an innovative teaching style and establish informational communication mechanisms.