Sampling


Here is my initial thinking about sampling. My thinking is that we should target 3 groups with the questionnaire:

 

1. Moodlers who didn't blog

2. Bloggers who didn't Moodle

3. Those who both blogged and moodled.

 

Would this effectively cover all participants or would there be people who were not included? I suppose lurkers would not be included, i.e. those who only read and listened, but did not post.

 

In one of your emails Matthias you said that there were

44 active blogs

82 partially active blogs (stopped after some weeks)

27 blogs that didn't really get started (what were your criteria for this judgement)

37 who were active only with other stuff (did these people have blogs but not post to them? - not sure what you mean by this)

 

You also said that 19 of these were not in the Moodle forums and that 392 moodlers did not blog.

 

I posted on 270209 (I'm not sure if these figures are of any relevance.

 

559 participants registered. Of these

 

499 have been inactive for more than 3 months

386 have been inactive for more than 4 months

322 have been inactive for more than 5 months

 

... which suggests that only about 277 really got going on Moodle and of these according a post made by Jorge about the long tail - only a very small number (about 25) were posting regularly by September 18th

 

In order to be sure of reaching people, I think we might have to email out the questionnaire. How difficult would it be to find people's email addresses? We also have the Ning site - where else could we post it?