Session 6: Knowledge Assessment &
Online Course Evaluation
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• Crafting Questions for Online Discussion (Penn State)
• Guide to Objective Tests (Computer Assisted Assessment Centre)
• Innovative classrooms: Assessment (George Lucas Foundation)
• Indicators of Engaged Learning (NCREL)
• Student Assessment of Learning Gains (Tool for student evaluation)
• Cooperative Learning (St. Edward's University)

• Do-it-yourself assessment. (Dartmouth)
• Virtual Center for Formative Evaluation (University of Texas)
  [Note: This link appears to be out of order at the moment, but I'm hoping it goes back online at some point.]
• What is an Evaluation? (U.S. Department of Education)
• Evaluation for Distance Educators (Univeristy of Idaho)
• Webmonkey: Market Research on the Web
• Frequent Objections to Spending Time and Money on Evaluation (Flashlight program, TLT group)

• Campus Computing Project (annual survey on the use of IT in higher education)
• Brief article on Russell's "No Significant Difference Phenomenon"
• Quotes from studies related to The "No Significant Difference Phenomenon"
• Critical Issues in evaluating the effectiveness of educational technology (U.S. Department of Education) [PDF file]
• North Carolina State study of Web vs. Campus courses

• Comparative analysis of delivery applications (reviews and evaluations of popular LMS tools, including Blackboard, WebCT, and Centra)
• SCORM information from ADL
• Introduction to XML (internet.com)
• Getting started: Web site accessibility. (W3C)
• Section 508/Accessibility. (NIH)
• Section 508:Electronic & Information Technology Accessibility Standards 
  (Note: Section 508 of the U.S. federal accessibility law requires that federal agencies' technology be accessible to people with disabilities. That means online learning the government buys from the private sector must also comply.)

• Webmonkey: Design links. Enjoy this content while it lasts....Lycos is discontinuing this extremely useful site at some point in the near future.
• Yale Web Style Guide
• Useit.com (Jakob Nielsen's Website)
• Creating a multilingual Web site. (W3C)
  

• The Basics (University of Michigan)
• Webmonkey: Log File Lowdown