Evaluating e-Learning: Guiding Research and Practice

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, Learning-centred Evaluation of Educational Technology 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-learningseries. This useful guide offers a multi-level approach that allows readers, 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 them with the proper tools for evaluating their own e-learning practices with ease.

Rob Phillips is Associate Professor in the Educational Development Unit at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Carmer McNaught is the Director and Chair Professor in the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Gregor Kennedy is Director of e-Learning at The University Melbourne, based in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education.