Hi! We’re Judy Savageau from UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research and Len Levin from the medical school’s Lamar Soutter Library. With our evaluation and library colleagues, we’ve authored several previous posts on integrating library science and its resources (including our librarian colleagues) to both conduct and disseminate evaluation findings. Today, we …
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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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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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
We’re Sarah Brewer, Elise Garvey, Ted Kniker and Krystal Tomlin the current leadership of AEA’s Government Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). To finish out Government Evaluation Week on AEA365, we decided to offer a glimpse into the future of Government Evaluation. Since 2015 was the 25th anniversary of the Government Evaluation TIG, we wanted to …
Hello Everyone! I’m Ted Kniker, Senior Vice President of Enlighteneering, and Chair of AEA’s Government Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). During our 25th anniversary year, the TIG sponsored a lively reflection on What is “Government” Evaluation from a multi-cultural perspective? The term “government evaluation” can mean so many different things. Lessons Learned: For example does …
My name is Lauren Supplee and I work in the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation at the Administration for Children and Families. Recent media and academic attention to transparency, replication, trust in science and lack of replication of findings in medicine research and psychology raises issues for evaluation as seen in articles in Nature …
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