Analysing data

I want to call it a success! 87 students took part in my need analysis survey for the Wimba project (Normally they run away when they hear the word ‘survey’). As I was planning to offer online support to our remote campus students, I wanted to know if they have computers at home with Internet access. The survey result looks positive and 98 % of them had computers at home with internet connection. I also wanted to know how confident they were using the computer and 96% of them showed varying levels of confident in using computers (just ok-45.2%, confident-35.7%, extremely confident-15.5%) and only 3.6% mentioned that they were extremely nervous about using computers. Majority of them (98%) said that they would like to get help via the internet to improve their English. Almost equal number of students indicated that they need help with all areas of English such as reading, writing, speaking, vocabulary and grammar. I offered writing workshops to different classes and small groups through Wimba and got the students to do a short poll after the sessions. I will come back with the poll result soon.