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Friday, October 21, 2011

Quick and dirty surveys

This is maybe a bit too late for the Analysis Design Develop and Implement phases of ADDIE, but may still be of great use for the Evaluation stage. Or especiallly for the prototyping idea that was suggested in the previous post.
In this post I want to tell you about two quick and dirty ways of doing an online survey/ questionnaire that could be used to gain feedback from your audience about the prototype, as part of the analysis phase and for the evaluation phase as part of an iterative design process.

1. Google forms: Don't you just love Google! As part of the Google docs (http://docs.google.com) offering, one is able to design online Forms which can be used as online questionnaires. See an example of a recent survey with Google forms we did for a course on the use of ICTs for Higher Education here. The example looks great and is a bit more detailed but it was really easy to create! I made a screencast on how to create your own Google form. The screencast video can be watched by going to web address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKKyOGcZ6w



2. Survey monkey: This is probably the most famous online Survey tool and the basic plan is free (Google forms is always free of course). I actually just completed a Survey monkey questionnaire this morning about the new Blackboard learning management system. To see what Surveymonkey is all about, go to web address: www.surveymonkey.com

Any other ideas on how to get feedback from students, clients or audiences? Have you used other ways to get the evaluation and feedback "job done"? Please comment and share.

5 comments:

  1. Thank you JP - I will definitely play around with this. My original thought was for the students to comment on the prototype blog, but now I also consider doing a short survey like this.

    I will definitely also consider it for the evaluation phase of ADDIE.

    And then another question - How do you embed something like your presentation above on the blog? Is it just copy and paste of the URL/pictures?

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  2. Physicalot - glad you found the information useful.

    About your question of how to embed a video in a blog - I have made another video specially for you! See the newest blogpost!

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  3. Hi - there is also an app in Blogspot to run a simple pole.

    Stef

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  4. Thanks Stef - will have a look at that too.

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  5. JP - thanks for your introductory video. This is a really fantastic way to get quick feedback.

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