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Formative Evaluations

Formative Evaluations. Margaret Markland CERLIM. Activities and progress. staffing problems and institutional systems support of project partners interdependency in the wider environment software tools. Learning from implementation. what is ‘theoretically true’ may not be so in practice

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Formative Evaluations

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  1. Formative Evaluations Margaret Markland CERLIM

  2. Activities and progress • staffing problems and institutional systems • support of project partners • interdependency in the wider environment • software tools

  3. Learning from implementation • what is ‘theoretically true’ may not be so in practice • the local ‘fix’ v the wider community • unexpected user requirements • technical skill set

  4. relationship issues • other development teams • academic staff • ‘pressure points’ • conflicting priorities • project staff and vendors • project staff and academics / students

  5. common language • technologists, educationalists and librarians • different departments in the same university • across project board • lack of technical resources

  6. Evaluation activities • are there any? • questionnaires, interviews, focus groups • user group meetings and activities • scenario building and testing • development of demonstrators

  7. Accessibility • good awareness of standards; W3C and WAI, JAWS etc • access for off campus students • non-standards compliant vendor products

  8. Dissemination • project websites • internal promotion – group meetings, briefings, demonstrations, newsletters, presentations • to the community – workshops and seminars, conference papers and presentations, publications

  9. Outputs and deliverables • prototype metadata schemas • prototype toolkits • reports, manuals and exemplars • user needs analyses

  10. Collaborations • contact with similar projects elsewhere • interest following conference presentations • cross DiVLE project collaboration • HERON, VLE vendors, learning content providers, LOM IMS and OAI communities, COLIS, NHS library services

  11. Future development • more adjustments to detail than changes in direction • creating accessible documentation and exemplars • stimulating demands for standardisation

  12. delivering tools for students as well as academics • evaluating needs of distant learners

  13. Programme activities • inter-project workshops • email list + bulletin board? • repository of standard documentation templates, technical tools, examples of metadata elements • JISC support beyond the end date • clarification of ‘fit’ between DiVLE activities and JISC strategies

  14. and in conclusion…

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