Results of NMC 2008 Member Organization Survey

As part of its role in benchmarking the field of New Media, the NMC is sharing the results of its annual survey of member organizations.

Between January and April 2008, we surveyed 276 NMC institutions to collect information on services provided, technologies used, current projects, and staffing. Below you will find the results of this survey, including data on use of NMC benefits media services provided, exploration of new technologies, support for technologies, projects in virtual worlds, use of open-source tools, and staffing/salary data.

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In comparison to the last survey, these organizations have notably increased in their use of external audio and video hosting services (including iTunesU, Google Video, YouTube, etc), increasing from 18% of organizations using such services n December 2006 to 49% of organizations for the current survey. This partly reflects an increase in the percentages of NMC organizations using iTunesU (growing from 18% to 31%) and the expanded use of video hosting sites. For 2008, 21% of NMC organizations report having a YouTube channel and another 28% are researching this option.

Not even an option in the previous survey, 14% of NMC organizations are using Google Applications for staff and/or student productivity applications and another 45% are researching this as an option or is in process of setting it up.

Generally organizations are more likely to host their own wiki service (45%) than hosting blogging services (19%). For both technologies, more than one quarter of the organizations are referring users to externally hosted services.

More than half of responding organizations have a project in Second Life; while the majority of projects are classified as research, 50% report having a virtual world project related to a specific course, and 14% have some sort of institutional presence in a virtual world space.

We hope this information is useful for looking at the New Media field as a whole and for benchmaring your own organization, If you have any questions about or suggestions for our surveys, please don't hesitate to contact us.