Revisiting formative evaluation: Dynamic monitoring for the improvement of learning activity design and delivery

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 157-162

  Richards, Griff ^a   DeVries, Irwin ^a  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cohort paced; E learning instructional design; Formative evaluation; Learning activities; Online learning

Indexed keywords

BLENDED LEARNING; COHORT-PACED; DESIGN LIBRARY; DYNAMIC MONITORING; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; LEARNING ACTIVITY; ON-GOING MONITORING; ONLINE LEARNING; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY;

CURRICULA; DESIGN; SEMANTIC WEB; TEACHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84856334528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2090116.2090141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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