{"id":285,"date":"2011-10-25T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/open-ed-conference-towards-an-aggregated-profile-of-the-global-oer-and-ocw-audience\/"},"modified":"2011-10-25T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:55:00","slug":"open-ed-conference-towards-an-aggregated-profile-of-the-global-oer-and-ocw-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-ed-conference-towards-an-aggregated-profile-of-the-global-oer-and-ocw-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Ed Conference: Towards an aggregated profile of the Global OER and OCW audience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speakers<\/b> Mary Lou Forward, Meena Hwang and Una Daly<\/p>\n

Developing a profile of our global audience through aggregated surveys of OER and OCW users worldwide.<\/p>\n

What are the demographics of those looking of open education<\/a> resources and open courses? based on their surveys, most of the people visiting http:\/\/www.educationportal.com are mostly over 40. They are getting mostly life-long learners. Only a third of the visitors are there to support their studies. The most popular answer to their survey was “to update my job skills.”<\/p>\n

People were visiting from 57 different countries.<\/p>\n

All of this points out the importance of translations.,<\/p>\n

Survey data is up at http:\/\/www.ocwconsortium.org<\/p>\n

There was then examples of a wide variety of users who provided comments about how folks are using OCW.  There are huge communities being built around open content<\/a> around the world. One site in China that hosts ed videos and a microblogging has 1.4 million followers. One study group has 3000 members.<\/p>\n

Una Daly got up to talk about who is using the open repositories.  She discussed the OER advocate training programs, online communities of practice<\/a>, and adopter communities. She mentioned the grant around adoption of OERs and the Hoopa Tribe Reader.<\/p>\n

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