世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s another quickie survey today (sorry, a bit busy these days to concentrate on long translations!), again reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by Marsh into the matter of e-learning.

Demographics

Between the 26th and 31st of March 2008 300 members of the Marsh internet monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. The sexes were split 50:50, and by age 20.0% were in their teens, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 13.3% in their fifties, and 6.7% aged sixty or older.

I once tried an internet site that offered Kanji Kentei training, but I didn’t really enjoy it much, and anyway now there’s Nintendo DS software for kanji practice for round about the same price as three months on the web site, why bother? Talking of the DS, looking at the results below it seems that e-learning here means internet-delivered contents, not software.

Research results

Q1: Do you know about e-learning, an education system that is delivered to information devices? (Sample size=300)

Yes (to SQ1)	64.3%
No	35.7%

Q1SQ1: Have you ever used e-learning? (Sample size=193)

Yes	28.0%
No (to SQ2)	72.0%

Putting these two together we get:

Q1+Q1SQ1: Have you ever used e-learning? (Sample size=300)

Yes	18.0%
No	46.3%
Don’t know what it is	35.7%

From the 54 people who had used e-learning, 47 people had used it on a PC, 5 people on a mobile phone, one on a PDA, and one on a digital television.

31 people had done e-learning at home for personal study and development, 24 people had done it at work, 12 people at a teaching or training organisation, and 5 people had done it at an educational institute.

Q1SQ2: Do you want to use e-learning? (Sample size=139)

Definitely want to use	7.2%
Want to use	14.4%
Want to use if I get the chance	54.7%
Don’t feel it’s particularly attractive	19.4%
Don’t need it	4.3%