Edtech 2

1. EVALUATION OF
LEARNING OBJECTS
AND INSTRUCTION
USING LEARNING
OBJECTS
By David D. Williams
EPE 312

2. Evaluation is integral to every aspect
of designing instruction with learning
objects.
1. Clarifying audiences and their values
2. Identifying needs & considering
alternative ways to meet needs (including
selecting among various learning objects)

3. 3. Conceptualizing a design, developing
prototypes and actual instructional units
with various combinations of learning
objects
4. Implementing and delivering the
instruction, managing the learning
experience, and improving the evaluation
itself.

4. Stakeholders in LO Evaluation
• Instructors
• Students
• Instructional Support person

5. CIPP Approach
CONTEXT evaluations that investigate
the socio-political, organizational, and
other contextual variables associated with
the need for learning objects, courses,
and support efforts,
Stufflebeam's CIPP model

6. CIPP Approach
INPUT evaluations that compare
alternative inputs or means for meeting
the needs identified in context evaluations,
including but not limited to learning objects
Stufflebeam's CIPP model

7. CIPP Approach
PROCESS evaluations that formatively
assess the planning, design,
development, and implementation of
learning objects and associated efforts to
use them, including attempts to adapt
instruction based on individual differences
as expressed in learner profiles, etc., and
Stufflebeam's CIPP model

8. CIPP Approach
PRODUCT evaluations that allow
summative judgments to be made
regarding the quality, utility, and value of
learning objects and infrastructures that
support them.
Stufflebeam's CIPP model

9. CIPP Evaluation Model
Stufflebeam's CIPP (Context, Input, Process, Product) Model about here
Context
Evaluation
Process
Evaluation
Input
Evaluation
Product
Evaluation
Based on Stufflebeam’s CIPP model. See <http://dle.byu.edu/williams/cipp.jpg>

10. Ideally, evaluation, like CIPP will occur
simultaneously and repeatedly throughout
the life of an organization (at the macro-level)
that has multiple projects, programs,
initiatives, and courses, and throughout
the life of a learning object (at the micro-level).

11. SOURCE
Williams, D. D. (2000). Evaluation of learning
objects and instruction using learning objects.
In D. A. Wiley (Ed.), The Instructional Use of
Learning Objects: Online Version. Retrieved
MONTH DAY, YEAR, from the World Wide Web:
http://reusability.org/read/chapters/williams.doc