2007 Education Blogosphere Survey results
Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant has published the results from his recent Education Blogosphere Survey. One hundred and sixty “edu-bloggers” participated; I was one of them. A few interesting observations:
- 80% of the respondents cited either “increased learning and growth” or “Community / connection / interaction” as the most valuable thing they got from blogging.
- The most difficult thing about blogging? Finding the time to write or having fresh content, 61%. I don’t know about the content, but I think most of us can relate to the time factor.
- On average, the participants subscribed to 89 different feeds in their blog reader. Somebody actually had 587.
- Several participants left some insightful comments. Here’s one regarding the benefits of blogging: “It has made me feel like a member of a much larger and much more resource rich educational community.” I really resonated with that one.
You can download a PowerPoint file with the results summary, or an Excel file for your own data-mining entertainment. This was a great idea for a survey, and I would like to see this survey expanded in the future.
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