Evaluating Resources

• Quality On the line: Benchmarks for success in internet based distance education
  "Quality On the Line identifies 24 benchmarks considered essential to ensuring excellence in Internet-based distance learning. The benchmarks are divided into seven categories of quality measures currently in use on campuses around the nation."
• Learning-Centred Evaluation of Computer-Facilitated Learning Projects in Higher Education
  "The project sought to address widely-acknowledged shortcomings in the evaluation of Computer-facilitated Learning projects (CFL), identified in a CUTSD report by Alexander & McKenzie, in 1998. It involved staff development in evaluation of CFL projects, proceeding from the premise that academics in most discipline areas generally have neither the skills nor expertise to carry out scholarly evaluations of student learning."
• Learning to evaluate - evaluating to learn
  "This paper reports on the planning and implementation of an evaluation of the final prototype of a physical and computer based simulation in a postgraduate midwifery program. The evaluation framework was designed to reflect the pedagogy of Laurillard's conversational framework, which had been used to structure the learning experiences in the simulation. …
  The lessons learned about evaluation are also elaborated. "
• Evaluating an online learning environment
  Elizabeth Stacey and Mary Rice, Deakin University
  "This paper reports on an evaluation undertaken under the auspices of the cross-institutional CUTSD funded project which was established to facilitate evaluations of computer facilitated learning with an action inquiry model of evaluation (Phillips, 2002). Our evaluation focused on students' learning processes and outcomes in an online learning environment established for postgraduate education students studying an Open and Distance Education Specialism in a Masters program at Deakin University. "