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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Evaluating e-learning: Guiding Research and Practice

The Wabash Center

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Author
Phillips, Rob; McNaught Carmel; and Kennedy, Gregor
Publisher
Routledge, New York, NY
ISBN
9780415881944
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface

I. Setting the Scene
ch. 1 E-learning, learning and evaluation
ch. 2 Evaluation as part of a teacher’s role

II. Theory
ch. 3 The Learning Environment, Learning Processes and Learning Outcomes (LEPO) Framework
ch. 4 What is meant by educational evaluation and research?
ch. 5 Research paradigms and methodologies
ch. 6 Evaluation-research approaches suitable for e-learning
ch. 7 The process of carrying out evaluation research
ch. 8 Evaluation research across the e-learning lifecycle
ch. 9 Conducting an Evaluation-research Study
ch. 10 Project-management Evaluation
ch. 11 Using evaluation-research results: An overview of impact issues beyond the confines of a single project
How can the average educator who teaches online, without experience in evaluating emerging technologies, build on what is successful and modify what is not?

Written for educators who feel ill-prepared when required to evaluate e-learning initiatives, Evaluating e-Learning offers step-by-step guidance for conducting an evaluation plan of e-learning technologies. It builds on and adapts familiar research methodology to offer a robust and accessible approach to effectively evaluate a range of innovative initiatives, including those covered in other books in the connecting with e-learning series.

This useful guide offers a multi-level approach that allows both beginners and experienced professionals to follow the level of text that suits their current needs. Practical applications discussed include:

• how to develop broad evaluation questions
• how to use an evaluation framework
• how to determine the sources of data to be used
• how to develop an evaluation matrix
• how to collect, analyze and interpret the data.

Readers will find this jargon-free guide is a must-have resource that provides the proper tools for evaluating their own e-learning practices with ease. (From the Publisher)