A Study on the Usage Evaluation of the OpenCourseWare in National Taiwan Normal University and National Chiao Tung University

[[abstract]]In recent years, the development of internet promoted the rapid expansion of e-learning, and the promotion of Open Content make knowledge acquired free easier by internet. OpenCourseWare is the outcome of these concepts , learners can acquire any learning content, material from institutions of higher education which developed OCW by internet. The main demands of OCW are anyone can acquire learning material, and learners from different background can use these materials. So far every institution which develop OCW have their own course characteristic, and what kinds of user will attracted to use these different OCW , and the usability and their satisfication of users on OCW are the important things on OCW development. The research objects are the OCW platforms of National Taiwan Normal University and National Chiao-Tung University, users were investigated their using motivations, utilizations and satisfication of the two OCW platforms by questionnaire, and analysis the web site log of the two OCW site to understand the curriculum department, number of users and clicks, and the continuity of using the top 10 courses. This study revealed that users’ main motivation of OCW is habit, and students will use it for their lessons or class selection, but for on-the-job users, using OCW for jobs is not the main reason. The clicks and user number of the two sites during the vacation are less than the semester period apparently, but the using frequency and using curriculum numbers of NCTU OCW are more than NTNU, and it’s unconcerned with using frequency and using by anyone’s recommend. Most of users can watch courses which are not majored in, in NCTU, users who major in science or engineer can use the business or management course, and the users major in business and management also use the science or engineer courses, in contrast the users of NTNU from different discipline focus on liteture or educations curriculums. On the comments of users, all users approve the importance of reality curriculums, but users using NCTU OCW consider it can substitute for user’s absence of reality curriculums, in contrast the NTNU OCW users think reality curriculums can’t replaced by OCW, but users are willing to using OCW. On user’s response, most users consider the kinds of curriculums and the serve and quality of video materials must be improved. Accroding the results of this study stated above, the OCW platform operation and recommendation on research topics were purposed as reference for research on the user behavior and the operation of OCW.