Transcript Evaluation of IT

Evaluation of IT
An Online Course on the
Evaluation of Information
Technology
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Fall 98 Support
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Instructors
Tech support
Academic Outreach
CTERbase development
Other CTER instructors
HRE online
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General Structure
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Focus on evaluation applied to
information technologies
Project-based
Collaborative teams
Simulated school
Seven two-week sections
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Major Activities
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A. Readings
B. Case studies of simulated
school
C. Individual formative evaluation
projects
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A. Readings
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Books
Guest lectures
 Powerpoint
+ audio
 Audio from telephone interviews
 Video
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Preview on course web site
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Discussions
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Webboard conferences
CTERbase submission of
summaries
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B. Team Projects
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Wildwood Junior High School
 Participants
 Larger
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context
NEF
Dynamic web site--grows in
response to team inquiries
Role players
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Team Discussions
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Archived email
Webboard conferences
Webboard chats
Audio bridge
Face-to-face
CTERbase submission of
summaries
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C. Individual Projects
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Formative evaluations
CTERbase submissions at three
stages
Email
Presentation at the Evaluation
Symposium
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Office Hours
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Realtime Player + Webboard chat
Email
Phone
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Course Evaluation
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Case studies
Mid-course evaluation (online)
Final ICES (online)
Student evaluation of technologies
used in the course
Message traffic--30+/day
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Outcomes
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Connect theory and practice
Application to current work and
settings--”the evaluation monster”
Understand complexities of
evaluation
Demanding for students and
instructors
Evaluation site
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