Use of Needs Assessment for the Evaluation of Online Education in Higher Education
How often are decisions at public institutions made without a proper needs assessment? Anyone who works regularly on projects probably has many stories of initiatives gone awry due to insufficient planning and undefined project scope.
Breaking out of the CMS: Civilizing the Open Internet Frontier for Learning
Course co-author David Porter, Instructional Designer Jeff Miller, and MET students, Jarrod Bell and Deepika Sharma, described the experience of moving ETEC 522 beyond WebCT as a course management system into several social media environments during their presentation at the Canadian e-Learning Conference.