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ECAR Recommends See the 2011 Report for a full list of actionable results. Investigate your students' technology needs and preferences and create an action plan to better integrate technology into courses and information systems. Provide professional development opportunities and incentives so instructors can better use the technology they have. Expand or enhance students' involvement in technology planning and decision making. Meet students' expectations for anytime, everywhere, Wi-Fi access on the devices they prefer to use. Nail the basics. Help faculty and administrators support students' use of core productivity software for academic work.

Last month, we began inviting students across the countries to fire up their Web cameras or camera-phones to send us video commentaries about whether lectures work for them. Below are highlights from the first batch of submissions, which are full of frustration with "PowerPoint abuse" - professors' poor use of slide software that dumps too much information on students in a less-than-compelling fashion.