Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies

DEOET TIG Week: Kim Manturuk on Increasing Survey Response Rates in Open Online Classes

Hello, my name is Kim Manturuk and I’m the Program Evaluator at Duke University’s Center for Instructional Technology. I get to evaluate a lot of interesting projects related to teaching and technology, but one of my biggest jobs is to evaluate Duke’s Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs). MOOCs are free, non-credit classes offered by universities …

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DEOET TIG Week: Braddlee on Open Educational Resources and Online Availability

Hi, I’m Braddlee and I serve as the Dean for Learning and Technology Resources for the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Over the past several years, I have helped facilitate the adoption of Open Educational Resources, or OER, to increase student success and lower educational costs. I recommend that evaluators in education look …

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DEOET TIG Week: Jessica Hearn on Using Images, Graphics, and Online Sources for Evaluation and Teaching

Hello! I’m Jessica Hearn, Director of the Evaluation Center and graduate faculty at the University of Kentucky’s College of Education. While there are many approaches to evaluation, we at the Center like Patton’s Utilization Focused Evaluations because it emphasizes the utility or usefulness of evaluation for stakeholder decision-making and program improvement. Working with diverse stakeholders …

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DEOET TIG Week: Michael Culbertson on Getting Beyond Satisfaction with a Rubric for Webinar Quality

Hello! I’m Michael J. Culbertson, team member on the Technical Evaluation Assistance in Mathematics and Science (TEAMS) project and research associate at RMC Research in Denver. We at TEAMS noticed that most webinar evaluations rely almost exclusively on post-webinar surveys of participant satisfaction. It’s true that satisfaction is an important indicator of webinar quality, but …

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DEOET TIG Week: Braddlee on Resources to Support Blended Learning

Hi, I’m Braddlee, and I serve as Dean of Learning and Technology Resources at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia. While there are a range of definitions of blended (also known as hybrid) online learning in higher education including those from the Online Education Consortium and Clayton Christensen Institute. Essentially, blended courses typically bring …

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DEOET TIG Week: Tara Shepperson on the Many Aspects of eLearning, eTeaching, and Educational Technologies

Hello! I’m Tara Shepperson, Chair of the Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies (DEOET) TIG of AEA, and Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at Eastern Kentucky University. Over the past two years, several issues have converged leading this TIG in a more focused direction: Growth of elearning is focusing our members on the big topics …

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Courtney Heppner and Sarah Rand on Producing Online Evaluation Reports

Greetings from the University of Chicago! We are Courtney Heppner and Sarah Rand, Associate Project Directors for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) at the University of Chicago. We will be presenting at AEA’s Annual Conference in DC about producing online evaluation reports. Sarah has blogged about online …

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Susan Lowes on Pile Sorts

Hello colleagues. My name is Susan Lowes and I am currently Director of Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University. One of my challenges is to make the evaluation process interesting to those being evaluated so I am always searching for assessments that go beyond surveys and interviews. …

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Matt Galen on Open Conferences: Increasing Access and Building Networks With Webcasting

My name is Matt Galen. I’m a PhD student in Program Evaluation and Applied Research Methods at Claremont Graduate University, and I’m going to give you a few practical guidelines for putting on an “Open Conference.” First, a brief bit of background about how I became interested in the idea of open conferences. Over the …

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A. Rae Clementz on Evaluation Tech Resources

Hi. My name is A. Rae Clementz and in addition to being the co-chair of the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG, I am also a techie.  I believe technology is of value when it helps us accomplish our goals in ways that are better, easier, and/or cheaper. I have evaluated several educational technology integration …

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