TEL Day: Questionnaire

The TEL day presented a good opportunity to promote the Streamline project alongside PERSoNA and the Institutional Repository. Nick and I put together a shared questionnaire between these three projects, which I have now done the preliminary analysis on. This report shows the questions I asked and some basic statistics gleaned from them. Nicks findings are available here on the projects respective blogs: PERSoNA and Repository.

We had twenty respondents in total many of whom also indicated that they were willing to participate in the focus groups Meg has mentioned. Unfortunately our first attempt at organising one has been cancelled due to lack of volunteers. Meg suggested that there is a lot going at the moment academically (exam boards and final marking) and that we would be better of in a coupe of weeks.

I’m going to take these results and re-examine them alongside our previous questionnaires. I’m manly look for patterns of positive or negative attitudes and work practices towards the process around learning object creation and re-use. I will post these up in couple of weeks with a more detailed report. I’m also going to have a look at the social networking questions Nick asked in regard to our ideas about the organisation and sharing of learning objects.

This week … reviewing repositories

This week I have been mostly been … reviewing repositories. Three of the repository demos were held this week; unfortunately I missed one of them. Of the three that I have thus far attended I found the search facilities associated with them their weakest point. Demos have been focused on document upload and site customisation. Each had its own unique features, from social bookmarking to embedding the search interface in other web based applications. Currently in the process of writing a report on each, for those of you who have been unable to attend. This should be our in the next week or so. Two more demos will be presented in the coming week. 

 

The second eCat workshop was also held this week, with a strong turn out. Meg indicated that it had gone well. I attend the end of the session to promote the Evaluation Questionnaire which went live on Thursday. So far one participant has completed this. The next workshop is on February 19th, 9.00am – 10.30am, GJ110. For those of you who experienced eCat or using search facilities (any) please feel free to complete those parts of the questionnaire. Please enter the code SPM01 (for streamline project members) so I can identify you from other participants. Thanks. 

 

The Emerge project meeting is happening at the end of this coming week. Janet and I are put together a poster for promoting the Streamline project. In the coming week I will be focused on completing the repository evaluations.