The document describes Opeka, a free web-service that collects data from teacher questionnaires about ICT usage. Opeka generates reports to provide information to municipalities, schools, researchers and the public about digital learning culture and ICT competencies. The reports allow comparisons of ICT usage and skills between teachers with different levels of experience. Analysis of early data from over 700 teachers found that those with 5 years or less experience reported lower ICT skills, usage, and attitudes compared to more experienced teachers. Opeka aims to encourage open discussions around developing ICT education activities.

1. Collecting and Using Data to Develop Digital
Learning Culture at School
Heikki Sairanen
Mikko Vuorinen
Jarmo Viteli

2. ICT in schools?
• Teachers give us information about their ICT usage by
filling questionnaires
– Local data gathering for development purposes
– Larger scale studies for research purposes
• PROBLEMS
– Small scale may mean lower quality
– There is often no or low comparability
– Samples can be hard to get

3. Introducing Opeka
• A free web-service
• A questionnaire about ICT use for the teachers
• Generates dynamic reports on the use of ICT in school
and municapality level
• Available at the moment in Finnish

4. Opeka’s main idea
• We expect and hope that OPEKA will encourage schools
to have open discussion about how they are utilizing ICT
in education and are there areas where they would like
to develop their activities

5. The Opeka model

6. Cumulative # of responders

7. What’s in it for teachers?
• A way to influence ICT development in all levels
• Information about other responders
• A nudge to use ICT more?

8. What’s in it for municapalities & schools?
• Visual and easy to interpret report about ICT usage of
the school
• Reports on…
– ICT compentences
– Device
– Software
– Know-how of teachers
– Comparisions to other respondents

9. What’s in it for the general public?
• Open reports about ICT in schools

10. What’s in it for researchers?
• Good comparable data from the field
• A unique database for analyzes

11. Examples about what we can do with the
data

12. Differences between less experienced
teachers and more experienced
1.79
2.21
2.15
2.04
2.01
1.81
2.40
2.13
2.05
2.32
0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00
Usage in teaching
Attitude (***)
ICT policy and procedures
Technological readiness
ICT skills (***)
<= 5 years experience > 5 years experience

13. 29.79%
50.78%
53.56%
49.22%
52.71%
54.08%
60.41%
62.99%
66.19%
79.69%
25.97%
32.03%
32.68%
39.87%
48.05%
54.90%
59.09%
59.74%
63.82%
81.17%
0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00% 80.00% 100.00%
Teaching via video
Basic skills for computer use (***)
Information retrieval and management (***)
Information security (**)
Mobile devices
eSociety and media literacy
Sound, video and images
School use of presentation technology
Digital communication
Digital content and learning environments
<= 5 years experience > 5 years experience
What do teachers want to have training
on?

14. Background
• Opeka was created as a part of the Project “OTE” –
Active ICT Usage in Schools that has been carried out
by the City of Tampere with funding The Finnish National
Board of Education.
• Our team:
– Jarmo Viteli, Heikki Sairanen and Mikko Vuorinen TRIM research
center, University of Tampere
– Raisa Valtaoja, The City of Tampere

15. Thank you!
Try Opeka at
www.opeka.fi
Available only in
Finnish (at the
moment!) 
Email:
heikki.sairanen@uta.fi

16. • 5 or less years of
experience: 121
• More than 5 years of
experience: 615
• n = 736
• Answer period: 2013.3.14
– 2013.4.24
• (***) p < 0.001
• Based on a large amount
of question that have
been numerized,
averaged and scaled
between 0 and 4
1.79
2.21
2.15
2.04
2.01
1.81
2.40
2.13
2.05
2.32
0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00
Usage in teaching
Attitude (***)
ICT policy and procedures
Technological readiness
ICT skills (***)
<= 5 years experience > 5 years experience

17. • 5 or less years of
experience: 121
• More than 5 years of
experience: 615
• n = 736
• Answer period: 2013.3.14
– 2013.4.24
• (***) p < 0.001
• Based on yes/no
questions29.79%
50.78%
53.56%
49.22%
52.71%
54.08%
60.41%
62.99%
66.19%
79.69%
25.97%
32.03%
32.68%
39.87%
48.05%
54.90%
59.09%
59.74%
63.82%
81.17%
0.00% 50.00% 100.00%
Teaching via video
Basic skills for computer
use (***)
Information retrieval and
management (***)
Information security (**)
Mobile devices
eSociety and media
literacy
Sound, video and images
School use of presentation
technology
Digital communication
Digital content and learning
environments
<= 5 years experience > 5 years experience