Results of the eTwinning Survey: Inactive Users amongst Maltese eTwinners

1. eTwinning:
Non-Active Users
Results of survey amongst Non-
Active Users on the eTwinning
Desktop
Malta 2012
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

2. Definition of
Non-Active Users:
• Users who have chosen to
‘deactivate’ their profile – Inactive
Users
• Users who have not logged for
12 months or more – Idle Users
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

3. Maltese Overview:
Active Idle Inactive Total Percentag
e
282 748 21 1051 73.17%
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

4. •
Action taken locally:
Short (1page) survey sent to
inactive/ idle users
• Constraints: some emails had
changed (due to migration from
Educ>iLearn system; defunct
ISPs)
• Approximate size of sample went
down to 600 from original 769 due
to above
• 94 participants responded as at
9.05.12 Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

5. Online form :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formke
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formk
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

6. 3 Simple Questions:
• What were your reason/s for not
logging onto your eTwinning
Desktop ?
• Would you like to participate
more actively in eTwinning in
the near future?
• What would you like your
eTwinning National Support
Service to do in order to facilitate
your overall experience in
eTwinning ?
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

7. What were your reason/s for not
logging onto your eTwinning
Desktop ?
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

8. • 48 % - lack of time
• 22% - not teaching at the moment
• 20% - registered during a seminar and
never logged in again
• 11% stopped teaching
• 10% - tried forming a project but
couldn’t find a partner
• 9% - do not have access to Internet/PCs
at school
• 9% - not sure where to get help if stuck
• 4% started project – partner stopped
working & lost interest
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

9. Would you like to participate more
actively in eTwinning in the near
future?
Yes – 71%
No – 29%
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

10. What would you like your eTwinning
National Support Service to do in
order to facilitate your overall
experience in eTwinning ?
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

11. • 33% - Organise more online
courses/webinars/Learning Events
• 28% - Help me in finding potential
eTwinning project partners
• 27% - Make school admin more
aware of eTwinning Action more
aware of eTwinning
Action/Organise training specific
to them
• 25% - Organise more onsite
training/visits to my school
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

12. Summary of Results -
Reasons for Not Logging…
• Main culprit for not
logging/deactivating profiles:
Lack of time (48%)
• Possible solution: eTwinning must
be seen as stemming from
students’ learning and curriculum,
and not as something alien
• Possible solution: simplification of
tools ? Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

13. Summary of Results -
Reasons for Not Logging
• Runner up: 20% registered during
a seminar and never logged in
• again
Are group registrations really
effective?
• Current trend in Malta is towards
personalised registrations during
school visits or small groups -
Less registrations vs. more active
users Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

14. Summary of Results -
Reasons for Not Logging
• Consider also: 9% do not have
access to Internet/PCs at school
• Can be related to: Lack of time
(48%)
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

15. Summary of Results – Would
You Like to Participate more
actively…
• 71% Yes, 29% No
• Do you think this is
encouraging?
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

16. Summary of Results – What
would you like your NSS to
do…
• Online vs. Onsite training: 33% -
25%
• Online courses offered locally:
Learning Event – The Other Side
• of eTwinning
Onsite training offered locally:
one to one or small group school
visits & general training sessions
at schools Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

17. Summary of Results – What
would you like your NSS to
do…
• Help in finding potential
eTwinning partners – 28%
• Action taken locally:
dissemination of informative
leaflet – Registering Collaborative
• Projects/Partner Finding
Action taken locally: Organisation
of Contact Seminars with the aim
of starting a collaborative project
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment

18. Summary of Results – What
would you like your NSS to
• do…
27% - Make school admin more
aware of eTwinning
action/organise training specific
• Action taken locally: Two
for them
seminars, at the beginning and
mid-scholastic year (during and
after school hours)
• Action taken locally:
Ambassadors’ input in schools
Curriculum Management and eLearning Department
Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education
Ministry for Education and Employment