EFL/ESL Portal Survey

8/7/2019 EFL/ESL Portal Survey

1/19

Austrian English Teachers

and the EFL/ESL site

http://e.schule.at
http://e.schule.at/http://e.schule.at/


2/19

e.schule.at and its users

Who are the users? Teachers!?

Pupils?

Students?

What are they looking for?

Re-usable LOs for print?

For interactive exercises?

For LMS?

For which level of the CEFR? A1, A2, B1, B2

For which types of school?


3/19

e.schule.at and its users

For teaching ideas? For links to other EFL/ESL-sites?

My users, the unknown species!

=> online questionnaire limesurvey

How to ask questions => questionnaire method How to get interpretable results!

Discussed questions with team!


4/19

End of school-year (final exams)

Small sample

IT-sceptics rather not fill in online survey

Survey 14 items

2 text boxes

Temperature questions 1-4 to avoid average 3


5/19

http://www.limesurvey.org

Open Source Different types

of questions

Online-creationand evaluation

Data-export in

Excel


6/19

Male or female?

Language Teachers are female!

English Teachers - Gender

female

71%

male

29%


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Where do you teach?

Primary School

2%

SecondaryModern School

35%

Lower

Secondary

5%

Upper

Secondary

15%

PolytechnicSchool

1%

Higher

Vocational

34%

Vocational

Apprentice

2%

Adult Education

6%


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I have been teaching forso many years

15 to 30 years of experience

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

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2

2,1 to

5

5,1 to

10

10,1

to 15

15,1

to 20

20,1

to 25

25,1

to 30

30,1

to 35

35,1

to 40

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and


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How did you find e.schule.at ??

A colleague

told me

33%

searching the

web

39%

by coincidence

28%


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How often do you visit e.schule.at?

daily

2%

many times a

week

8%

once a week

13%

many times a

month

22%once a month14%

less often41%


11/19

Learning Management System

Which LMS do you use?

Do you use a LMS?

Yes

38%

No

62%

0 5 10 15 20 25

edumoodle

Moodle server

Other Moodle servers

MS Class/ Sharepoint

Other

LMS Burgenland

Which LMS do you use?


12/19

In the platform I am looking for

(1) applies totally does not apply at all (4)

Yes /rather yes : Rather no/ no

QU: I am looking for (teaching) ideas 95%

Material for print 92%

.... interactive LOs for use in class 71%

.... LOs for the LMS 41%

.... interactive LOs for use at home 52%

.... LOs for private coaching/tutoring 24%

.... didactics & methodology 61%


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LOs in addition to topics of coursebook 92%

***** of LOs by users would be useful 78%

I would be ready to do that myself 80%

I use the search-box of the platform 75%

the tree (of categories) is ok for me 80%

thematic link collections very valuable 83%


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I would like more pictures & images 73%

more listening & podcasts 88%

more videoclips 76%

I would register for a regular newsletter 54,5%


15/19




I want to get in touch with colleagues via social

software tools => 34% I am ready to share my digital ressources with

colleagues in a password-protected area

=> 63% !!! All in all I am satisfied with e.schule.at

80,5%


16/19

Money, money, money ...

Public funding is dwindling. I can imagine otherforms of financing free educational content ofhigh quality .

Sponsoring => 80,5% Ads of edu-related companies like publishers etc.

=> 86%

Schools should pay => 41,5%

Teachers should pay => 21%


17/19

Myschule.at

I would like a personalized starting page intoschule.at => 45%

Verbal feedback:

very positive

CEFR has to be implemented

Bench marks (A2, B2)

Film reviews More material for (academically) weak children

Criticizing e-learning resistant teachers


18/19

Conclusions

Biggest usergroups: Sec.Modern + Higher Voc.

Majority are middle-aged teachers

Majority does not use LMS (62%)

... looks for print material (92%)

... material in addition to coursebooks (92%)

... appreciates special thematic link collections 83% ... willing to rate LOs (80%)


19/19

Conclusions

More than half would like a newsletter (54,5%)

2 thirds would be ready to exchange digitalressources in a pw-protected platform (63%)

Search engine of the platform has to be improved(used by 75%)

More media (podcasts, videos, images)

Sponsoring and advertising is ok (80,5 86%) Majority of users appreciates platform (80,5%)

How do we address those who don't come?

Documents

EFL/ESL Portal Survey