5. How would you describe your main role?
Teacher
Learning technologist
Teaching support
Healthcare worker
Administrator
Manager
Student
0 15 30 45 60
6. What discipline area do you work in?
Medicine
Veterinary
Dentistry
Nursing
Health science
Biological science
Social science
Physical sciences
Humanities
Arts
0 10 20 30 40
7. In what sector do you normally work?
Higher education
Further education
NHS
Health-related
Commercial sector
0 23 45 68 90
8. How often do you search online for learning resources?
I'm often searching for learning resources online whether or not I have a specific need
I tend to only search when I have a specific need for learning resources
I seldom search online for learning resources
9. How often do you search online for learning resources?
I'm often searching for learning resources online whether or not I have a specific need
I tend to only search when I have a specific need for learning resources
I seldom search online for learning resources
5%
49%
46%
10. It's relatively easy to find what I'm looking for even if I need to hunt around a bit
I often have difficulty finding learning resources
25%
75%
11. Which sites do you use most often to search for learning resources?
Google
Journal search e.g PubMed etc
Wikipedia
Google scholar
YouTube
HEA Subject Centre
Flickr
Intute
Amazon
iTunesU
Jorum
iTunes
Yahoo
Bing (the decision engine?)
0 25 50 75 100
12. Which sites do you use most often to search for learning resources?
Google
Journal search e.g PubMed etc
Wikipedia
Google scholar
YouTube
HEA Subject Centre
Flickr
Intute
Amazon
iTunesU
Jorum
iTunes
Yahoo
Bing (the decision engine?)
0 25 50 75 100
13. Which sites do you use most often to search for learning resources?
Google
Journal search e.g PubMed etc
Wikipedia
Google scholar
YouTube
HEA Subject Centre
Flickr
Intute
Amazon
iTunesU
Jorum
iTunes
Yahoo
Bing (the decision engine?)
0 25 50 75 100
14. Which sites do you use most often to search for learning resources?
Google
Journal search e.g PubMed etc
Wikipedia
Google scholar
YouTube
HEA Subject Centre
Flickr
Intute
Amazon
iTunesU
Jorum
iTunes
Yahoo
Bing (the decision engine?)
0 25 50 75 100
15. When choosing a learning resource, how influenced are you by who created it?
It's highly important to me and has a major influence on which resource I choose
It's not usually important to me providing it's the right resource for my purpose
16. When choosing a learning resource, how influenced are you by who created it?
It's highly important to me and has a major influence on which resource I choose
It's not usually important to me providing it's the right resource for my purpose
49.7 50.3%
17. How influenced are you if required to register to gain access to a learning resource?
Prefer not but would consider
Prefer not choose such resources
Don’t mind
0 15 30 45 60
18. How influenced are you by the target audience or educational context?
Highly important
Useful but not essential
Not important
19. How influenced are you by the target audience or educational context?
18%
Highly important
Useful but not essential
Not important
20. How influenced are you by the target audience or educational context?
18%
55%
Highly important
Useful but not essential
Not important
21. How influenced are you by the target audience or educational context?
18%
28%
55%
Highly important
Useful but not essential
Not important
22. Link in place or download?
Prefer to link
Prefer to download
No preference
0 13 25 38 50
23. If you prefer to download, why?
Control over how students access a resource
Will disappear if I don't download it
Might only want a part, not the whole thing
Might reformat or mix with own content
0 20 40 60
25. How useful are comments and ratings?
Not important
Seldom use
Will use if available
Won’t use a resource with a bad review/rating
Irrelevent as most sites don’t support this
Wished all search sites had user reviews/ratings
0 25 50
26. Have you ever left a comment or review?
Yes
32%
No
68%
28. Do you usually ask for permission?
I normally ask for permission
I try to look for licensed resources so don't need to
I know I should but it's such a hassle
I seldom ask for permission
If it’s on the web then I shouldn’t need to ask
0 15 30 45 60
29. What is most important to you when searching for
learning resources?
30. What is most important to you when searching for
learning resources?
31. What is most important to you when searching for
learning resources?
That learning resources should...
...be easy to find
...meet teaching needs
...be of good quality