Survey Results: Mobile learning for ELT

The purpose of the survey was to ascertain the level of awareness and openness to mobile learning among English language teachers. I also wanted to find out to what degree and how teachers were already using mobile learning both in their teaching and and professional development and to establish whether they would be willing to pay for and use mobile content. The survey also collected information about the teachers’ existing access to mobile services and the kinds of device they are using to get access to mobile Internet.


The survey was carried out during June and July of 2010. The survey was answered by over 500 English language teachers.

The results of this survey were collected online using a web based survey site called SurveyMonkey.com. The online survey was distributed through:

• My Twitter Network (3k teachers world wide)
• The British Council’s ELTeCS list (15k teachers world wide)
• A number of email based ELT discussion lists (these are long established lists from around the world. They are teaching rather than technology focused)

The respondents are likely to be early technology adopters as they are mostly people who are already involved in some form of online teaching network. However the majority of the networks used to distribute the survey were not focused on the use or discussion of technology in teaching, but are mainly forum to discuss mainstream teaching.

• You can access the complete survey results at: http://tinyurl.com/3ayyhnb
• You can download the tabulated data with a brief analysis and summary from: Technogogy.org.uk
  

I hope you find this information useful. Many thanks to all those people who took the time to answer the questions and share information.

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Nik Peachey