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Key Evaluation Questions by Area:

Area 1 - Infrastructure: Teacher and student experience of new eLearning systems

Part 1 – Teacher perspective

  1. What is the main learning outcome for students who complete your unit of study?
  2. What are the key ideas that students should be learning by using the eLearning system you have included in this unit of study?
  3. How is your approach to teaching related to the eLearning system? What do you do? Why do you do it?

Part 2 - Student perspective

  1. Given what you have studied so far, how would you summarise the main idea or purpose of your unit of study in a sentence or two?
  2. What do you think you are learning through using the eLearning system in your unit of study?
  3. How do you approach using the eLearning system in your unit of study? What do you do? Why do you do it?

(nb see example of questionnaire for streaming in appendix 2)

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Area 2 – Teacher experience of strategic eLearning projects

End of project period- Teacher’s questionnaire

Part 1 - Resources

  1. To what extent do the online resources (activities and materials) meet your expectations?
  2. How will the online resources be used in (your) teaching?
  3. How will the online resources help (your) teaching?

Part 2 – Project development process

  1. How would you describe your experience of the project development process? Was the process what you expected?
  2. What was your experience of working with a team?
  3. Has taking part in the project changed your teaching? In what way?

Part 3 – Perceived benefits for students

  1. How do you think students will approach using the resources in their learning?
  2. How do you think it will help their learning?
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Area 3 – Student experience of learning/ teacher experience of teaching at Sydney

  1. See the University evaluation service at ITL at http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/Teval/overview.htm
  2. See evaluative research conducted with partners of Sydney eLearning at http://testsite07.cms.ucc.usyd.edu.au/elearning/documents/index.shtml
  3. Contact Associate Professor Rob Ellis for additional approaches to evaluating eLearning via email at
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