Scholarz.net. Course: Moodle, Web 2.0 and social-networking. Profile. Course: Social-networking and Moodle. eLearning Technology. I've been working with Steve Wexler and the eLearningGuild on the eLearning 2.0 survey and report. Some interesting data points are coming out of the study. Right now there are more than 1000 respondents. I've not really seen good numbers on what people are using as part of their day-to-day lives. Here are some numbers that confirm a bit of what we thought and a few surprises. More coming on this. The charts below show use of different tools, sites, etc. The key is for the charts is: Darkest blue - dailyMedium blue - weeklyLight blue - monthlyGray - neverTool Use in Corporations Some things that jumped out at me: Much more blog reading that I expected. 62% read at least weekly.Interestingly RSS readership for "weekly" only adds up to 41%. Clearly Education is ahead of Corporate adoption, otherwise the numbers are fairly well aligned.There's similar sharing ratios.Then to compare with adoption by people in Government.
Some things that jumped out at me: Keywords: Virtual Learning. There’s an interesting thread on the integration of Moodle and Facebook on the moodle.org forums (easy to register) which I intend to pick up on in my keynote at tomorrow’s UK Moodlemoot. Brian Mulligan, who will supply you liberally with Guinness and fine folk music at his local if you ever visit him in Sligo, kicks it off by expressing his concerns that Facebook is so popular with students that it might at some stage supplant Moodle. Other contributors mention privacy, security and advertising as problems with Facebook – and the fact that it relies on one list of “friends” while with Moodle you get a different (and correct) group of coursemates with each course you’re studying. Facebook is simply a different animal from Moodle and is not going to work well for formal learning where students need to be grouped together with a tutor or teacher for the duration of a course.
Social Networks in Education » home.