Welcome to EDPSY 389, Evaluation and Assessment in Learning Technologies!!!

I am very excited (and a little nervous) to be teaching my first online course. In the past, when I have taught this as a face-to-face course, there has been a lot of student-professor and student-student interaction. I hope we can create that in an online context.

During the course, you will learn how to conduct, report and evaluate an evaluation of a learning technology. A major piece of the course is the project, where you will actually plan, conduct, report on, and meta-evaluate your own evaluation. Start thinking now about what project you may want to undertake. You can work with a group if you like, but the scope of the project should be larger than an individual project and each individual's responsibility should be clearly defined.

There is a lot of reading during the first 8 weeks of the course, then it slacks off as you will need more time to conduct your evaluation. If you want to get a head start on the readings, begin with Chapters 1-11 in the Worthen, Sanders and Fitzpatrick book and read through the Program Evaluation Standards.

In early January, we plan to send you a CD containing the PowerPoint and video sections of the course. During the first week of class, Merrill Chandler and I will poll you to establish the most convenient time for online office hours.

In the meantime, have a happy holiday season, rest up, and contact me if you have any questions or concerns. I typically check my email very early each morning.

Take care,

Lizanne