世論 What Japan Thinks

As I’ve just recently had a request from work to complete some online training, this recent survey from Marsh Inc and reported on by japan.internet.com into e-learning is quite timely for me.

Demographics

Over the 7th and 8th of January 2009 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% aged sixty or older.

The training I’ve been asked to complete is some stuff on copyright and intellectual property, all in Japanese of course, in some sort of Flash-based presentation that I’ve not tried yet. I once did a similar course with quite nice software that came with full text of all the script, so I could easily cut-and-paste words I didn’t understand into a dictionary. However, the course was ridiculously easy; it just seemed like a way to force you to sit through 10 or 15 hours of lectures, with the implication, of course, that you do it all on your own time, not at work.

Research results

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

Yes (to SQ1)	27.0%
No (to SQ2)	36.7%
Don’t know what it is (to SQ2)	36.3%

Q1SQ1: How was the e-learning? (Sample size=81)

Very useful, want to use it again	25.9%
Useful	33.3%
OK	27.2%
Difficult to use	11.1%
Other	2.5%

Q1SQ2: Do you want to try e-learning? (Sample size=219)

Definitely want to try	2.7%
Want to try	7.3%
If I have the chance I want to try	56.6%
Don’t feel any particular charm	33.3%