Following on from the dubious numbers in my Google Reader post, Slideshare have recently been kind enough to hint at what is possible via their pay plans by emailing me (on April 29th) stats on views of my presentations:
- Questionmark vs Blackboard for online tests – 778 views
- Whose education is it anyway? – Blackboard UK User Group 2010 – 566 views
- Supporting the transition from the physical to the virtual classroom – 480 views
- Using Blackboard for Pre-Entry Diagnostic Testing – 333 views
- ALT-c 2011: Breaking the ice, an instructional design approach for institutional growth – 252 views
These basics stats are also available via the ‘My Uploads’ section – my most viewed item being Pdp: Its Role And Implementation In The Law Curriculum as of today (926 views).
In total my 7 Slideshares have been viewed 3503 times (as of May 10th).
An issue here is how Slideshare deals with sites such as docs.hut effectively copying the resource. Therefore, whilst there is some use in such statistics and analytics there is little value without some narrative from the users engaging with them, unfortunately a lack of comments means this is tricky to say the least. Slideshare do offer some further functionality but there are clearly issues here – for example the best interaction around a presentation I have had is perhaps the ALT-c 2011 one above whilst its numbers in terms of views are not great.
When LinkedIn recently took Slideshare content and worked it directly into your profile I removed the presentations, whilst I am happy for these to be shared they are very much of their time and I would not necessarily recommend them as examples of my work. I see Slideshare as something of a historic evidence archive of my development rather than examples of the kind of work I would produce today, another example where it is useful to keep different social and web tools separate for different use cases.
Whose Education Is It Anyway? 