基本説明
Offers step-by-step guidance for conducting an evaluation plan of e-learning technologies.
Full Description
How can novice e-learning researchers and postgraduate learners develop rigorous plans to study the effectiveness of technology-enhanced learning environments? How can practitioners gather and portray evidence of the impact of e-learning? How can the average educator who teaches online, without experience in evaluating emerging technologies, build on what is successful and modify what is not?
By unpacking the e-learning lifecycle and focusing on learning, not technology, Evaluating e-Learning attempts to resolve some of the complexity inherent in evaluating the effectiveness of e-learning. The book presents practical advice in the form of an evaluation framework and a scaffolded approach to an e-learning research study, using divide-and-conquer techniques to reduce complexity in both design and delivery. It adapts and builds on familiar research methodology to offer a robust and accessible approach that can ensure effective evaluation of a wide range of innovative initiatives, including those covered in other books in the Connecting with e-Learning series.
Readers will find this jargon-free guide is a must-have resource that provides the proper tools for evaluating e-learning practices with ease.
Contents
Preface
I. Setting the Scene
1. E-learning, learning and evaluation
2. Evaluation as part of a teacher's role
II. Theory
3. The Learning Environment, Learning Processes and Learning Outcomes (LEPO) Framework
4. What is meant by educational evaluation and research?
5. Research paradigms and methodologies
6. Evaluation-research approaches suitable for e-learning
7. The process of carrying out evaluation research
8. Evaluation research across the e-learning lifecycle
9. Conducting an Evaluation-research Study
10. Project-management Evaluation
11. Using evaluation-research results: An overview of impact issues beyond the confines of a single project
