The Evaluation of e-Learning Practices in the University Education System.
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| Title: | The Evaluation of e-Learning Practices in the University Education System. |
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| Authors: | de Pablos Heredero, Carmen1 carmen.depablos@urjc.es |
| Source: | Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL). 2009, p146-155. 10p. 1 Diagram, 2 Charts. |
| Subject Terms: | *Mobile learning, *Information technology, *Computer assisted instruction, *Educational technology research, *Methodology, Communication & technology |
| Abstract: | The information and communication technologies are promoting deep changes in our society by originating new concepts, as e-learning, e-government, e-commerce, etc. All of them have each day more impact in our daily lives. The e-learning is one of the teaching styles highly implemented in the last ten years. Measuring the quality of the e-learning practices is much more complex than comparing some indexes. It implies discussing about models and all the activities that can promote the change to produce an effective way for achieving the desired objectives. Up to now, the dominant trend for the evaluation of the e-learning practices has been the application of different systems containing indexes of quality previously applied to private firms and other Institutions. A group of concepts and methods coming from traditional standardized systems (as for example, the ISO norms and the models for the total quality management evaluation, TQM) are assumed, however, the need to look for a personalized framework of reference in the e-learning practices, promotes lots of research on this issue. All the options pay attention to the following aspects: the need for modelling the quality of the virtual training activity and the explicit expression of the models; that it is to say, what are the main criteria applied, the principles and the objectives that make sense and govern the processes, methods and tools for the quality, etc. In this research we have tried to describe the state of the art of the evaluation of the quality in e-learning practices. Apart from considering the ones identified by Belanger and Jordan (2000), we are going to pay special attention to the economic evaluation and to the practices of evaluation centred around the benchmarking practices, specially the BENVIC model and the UNIQUE methodology applied in the European e-learning upper educational space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Education Research Complete |
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