OpenCourseWare Website Utilization Survey

1. How often do you use the OpenCourseWare Consortium website at http://www.ocwconsortium.org?

How often do you use the OpenCourseWare Consortium website at http://www.ocwconsortium.org? Most weeks

Most months

At least once a year

Never

Explanation (optional)

2. Of the following main areas of the site, how useful is each to you?

	Not used	Rarely use	Frequently use	Always use
Use	Of the following main areas of the site, how useful is each to you? Use Not used	Rarely use	Frequently use	Always use
Share	Share Not used	Rarely use	Frequently use	Always use
Support	Support Not used	Rarely use	Frequently use	Always use

3. When you have looked for information on the website, where have you found it?

	Never	Sometimes	Usually	Always
About Us	When you have looked for information on the website, where have you found it? About Us Never	Sometimes	Usually	Always
Contact Us	Contact Us Never	Sometimes	Usually	Always
News	News Never	Sometimes	Usually	Always
Blog	Blog Never	Sometimes	Usually	Always
Members	Members Never	Sometimes	Usually	Always
Help	Help Never	Sometimes	Usually	Always

Comments (optional)

4. How useful is the Toolkit and its sections to you? If you have never looked at the material in a given section, select N/A.

	Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Toolkit (in general)	How useful is the Toolkit and its sections to you? If you have never looked at the material in a given section, select N/A. Toolkit (in general) Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Making the Case	Making the Case Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Technology	Technology Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Creating and Managing an OCW Team	Creating and Managing an OCW Team Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Relating OCW to Pedagogy	Relating OCW to Pedagogy Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Addressing Accessibility Issues	Addressing Accessibility Issues Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Maintaining Intellectual Property	Maintaining Intellectual Property Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Creating and Using Metadata	Creating and Using Metadata Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Production, Annotation and Editing	Production, Annotation and Editing Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Internal Communications	Internal Communications Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
External Communications	External Communications Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Evaluation and Metrics	Evaluation and Metrics Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A
Translation and Localization	Translation and Localization Not useful at all	A little useful	Somewhat useful	Very useful	N/A

Comments (optional)

5. When you search for OpenCourseWare, how useful are the following tools and sites? (1=least useful/5=most useful)

	1	2	3	4	5	N/A
Search Engines (Google/Yahoo/Bing)	When you search for OpenCourseWare, how useful are the following tools and sites? (1=least useful/5=most useful) Search Engines (Google/Yahoo/Bing) 1	2	3	4	5	N/A
OCWC Course Finder	OCWC Course Finder 1	2	3	4	5	N/A
OER Commons	OER Commons 1	2	3	4	5	N/A
Repositories (Merlot/Connexions/Knowledge Hub)	Repositories (Merlot/Connexions/Knowledge Hub) 1	2	3	4	5	N/A
Creative Commons (Search and beta DiscoverEd)	Creative Commons (Search and beta DiscoverEd) 1	2	3	4	5	N/A
Major University Websites (MIT, etc...)	Major University Websites (MIT, etc...) 1	2	3	4	5	N/A
Regional Consortia (Universia, CORE, etc...)	Regional Consortia (Universia, CORE, etc...) 1	2	3	4	5	N/A

6. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is looking to improve its website. Choose the areas that you believe would benefit from incorporation (where it does not yet exist) or by its improvement on the website and rank them according to relative usefulness of the incorporation/improvement. (1 = not useful/5= very useful)

	1	2	3	4	5
Membership Benefits and Application Process	The OpenCourseWare Consortium is looking to improve its website. Choose the areas that you believe would benefit from incorporation (where it does not yet exist) or by its improvement on the website and rank them according to relative usefulness of the incorporation/improvement. (1 = not useful/5= very useful) Membership Benefits and Application Process 1	2	3	4	5
Member Communications and Collaboration	Member Communications and Collaboration 1	2	3	4	5
Conference/Event Management	Conference/Event Management 1	2	3	4	5
Multilingual site	Multilingual site 1	2	3	4	5
Update Existing Content	Update Existing Content 1	2	3	4	5
Donation Acceptance	Donation Acceptance 1	2	3	4	5
FAQs	FAQs 1	2	3	4	5

Comments (optional)

7. What content, tools, or forums for member communications would make you regularly return to the OCWC website?

What content, tools, or forums for member communications would make you regularly return to the OCWC website?

8. The Consortium is very interested in your input into the website redesign process. Please provide as extensive comments as you like in the box below indicating any ideas that you may have for the website that are not covered above.

The Consortium is very interested in your input into the website redesign process. Please provide as extensive comments as you like in the box below indicating any ideas that you may have for the website that are not covered above.

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1. How often do you use the OpenCourseWare Consortium website at http://www.ocwconsortium.org?

2. Of the following main areas of the site, how useful is each to you?

3. When you have looked for information on the website, where have you found it?

4. How useful is the Toolkit and its sections to you? If you have never looked at the material in a given section, select N/A.

5. When you search for OpenCourseWare, how useful are the following tools and sites? (1=least useful/5=most useful)

7. What content, tools, or forums for member communications would make you regularly return to the OCWC website?

8. The Consortium is very interested in your input into the website redesign process. Please provide as extensive comments as you like in the box below indicating any ideas that you may have for the website that are not covered above.