  Recent developments in the use of technologies in education have provided
unique opportunities for teaching and learning. This paper describes the
results of a survey conducted at Western University (Canada) in 2013, regarding
the use of media by students and instructors. The results of this study support
the assumption that the media usage of students and instructors include a
mixture of traditional and new media. The main traditional media continue to be
important, and some new media have emerged as seemingly on equal footing or
even more important than the traditional forms of media. Some new media that
have recently been in the public spotlight do not seem to be as important as
expected. These new media may still be emerging but it is not possible to know
their ultimate importance at this point. There was some variation in media
usage across different Faculties but perhaps not as much variation as might
have been expected.
