Survey on virtual dissemination

ASPECT/iCOPER survey about dissemination technologies and systems

This survey is delivered to all the participants involved in the ASPECT/iCOPER BPN. The purpose of this survey is to discover which Web technologies and systems the participants in this project use to publish and get information related to e-learning standards. The final goal is to get a good knowledge about these issues to establish the needs and requirements of a tool that facilitates the dissemination of the information produced in the project.

Name:

Institution:

Date:

1. How much do you usually use the following formats to publish your stuff about Standards and Specifications for Learning Technologies (SSLT)? (0-never, 1-low, 5-high)

· Documents (PDF, Word)

· HTML pages

· Presentation slides

· Audio records (e.g., Podcasts)

· Video records (e.g., Flashmeeting records)

2. How much do you usually use each one of the following technologies to publish your stuff? (0-never, 1-low, 5-high)

· Traditional Web pages

· Blog

· Wiki

· CMS (Joomla, OpenCMS, etc.)

· Other Web 2.0 tools (e.g., youtube, slideshare, etc.).

3. If you publish your stuff in a blog, which blog systems do you use?

· Blogspot

· WordPress

· Movable Type

· Drupal

· Other:

4. If you publish your stuff in a wiki, which wiki systems do you use?

· MediaWiki

· TikiWiki

· Other:

5. If you publish your stuff using a CMS, which CMS systems do you use?

· Joomla

· Plone

· Nuxeo

· Other:

6. If you publish your stuff using other Web 2.0 tools, which systems do you use?

· YouTube

· Slideshare

· Other:

7. Do you use any syndication mechanism to facilitate the dissemination of your stuff?

· No

· Yes, syndication (e.g., RSS, Atom)

· Yes, mailing list

· Yes, other:

8. Have you used some kind of feed aggregation software?

· No, never

· Planet

· Metaplanet

· Gregarius

· Bloglines

· Google Reader

· Rojo.com

· None of these

9. Which mechanism do you prefer for displaying entries in feed aggregators?

· List of tags

· Tags cloud

· Categories of tags

· Other

10. Which method do you prefer to get your stuff related to Standards and Specifications for Learning Technologies (SSLT) published in the ASPECT/iCOPER BPN in a grouped way?

· To use a personal blog supported by a central blog system.

· To use my current system and to tag the entries in accordance with ASPECT/iCOPER recommendations. Then, a central system would feed my entries and publish them in conjunction with related entries of other participants.

· Other:

11. Would you like to publish your own blog entries in the new system provided by the ASPECT/iCOPER BPN?

· Yes

· No

12. Please, write a maximum of 10 tags describing your activity in the field of Learning Technology standardization: