Making the complex clear, turning difficult into intriguing, raising intellectual curiosity, supporting creative problem solving, posing authentic challenges, building effective scaffolds – contemporary e-learning goes beyond the latest tools and technologies. The special interest group “Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning” aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to debate and collaborate on a variety of instructional design themes. The SIG will promote activities for future E-Learn conferences, including suggestions for invited speakers and symposia. It provides a marketplace for joint research projects and offers publications opportunities in form of special issues and edited volumes.

1. SIG3:
Designing,
Developing &
Assessing
E-Learning
Curtis Ho
University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA)
Stefanie Panke
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)

2. Co-Chairs – SIG Facilitators
Our Goal: Community of Practice with
many leadership roles

3. Outcomes for Today
• Get to know members of SIG
• Agree on Purpose and Scope
• Discuss communication tools
• Discuss possible activities
• Discuss your interest or role

4. SIG Purpose & Scope
• Purpose:
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Create community for research and practice
Identify common challenges, issues & interests
Facilitate research collaboration
Influence and enrich E-Learn program
Create shared knowledge (crowdsourcing, surveys)
Present our work in reports, special issues, etc.
• Scope:
– Pedagogy-oriented, not trend-driven
– Already nicknamed ‘The Assessment SIG’
– Focus on ‘Assessment’?

5. Learn more about us at ETC Journal
• A Conversation with Curtis Ho: AACE E-Learn
SIG on Designing, Developing and Assessing ELearning

6. Assessment & E-Learning
• Needs Assessment: Gather data to reach the audience
effectively and design user-friendly interfaces (e.g., focus
groups, surveys, interviews, personas, scenarios)
• Impact Assessment: Understand how learners access
online material or move through the curriculum and
improve their experience (e.g., Web analytics, social
media metrics, learning analytics, surveys, interviews)
• Classroom Assessment: Implement assessment
techniques that support students’ critical thinking
abilities and transfer learning skills(e.g., peer-to-peer
assessment, rubrics, portfolios, problem-based learning).

7. Ideas for Activities
• Follow-up online survey among SIG members
• Bimonthly virtual meetings (Adobe Connect /
Google Hangout) – suggested topics?
• SIG Mailinglist / Newsletter
• SIG Blog/Website
• SIG Social Media Spaces
(Facebook, Twitter, Scoop.It, Pinterest, LinkedIn)
• SIG Meeting report
• Ideas /Input for E-Learn 2014

8. Writing Collaborative at E-Learn 2014
• Groups of 4-6 international scholars collaborate in a writing
team on a joint, assessment-related topic
• Each group is led by an experienced chair
• Collaboration is facilitated through online meetings
• Each participant adds individual, national and
organizational perspective
• Writing sprint at E-Learn 2014 Conference
• Articles are submitted to Special Issue or Edited Volume
• Example: ‘Writing Without Borders: 2013 International
Writing Collaborative’ in Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The
ISSOTL Journal, 1(2).

9. Play a vital part!
• Would you like to host or lead a virtual
meeting?
• Are you interested in the collaborative writing
project?
• Would you like to curate a social media space
for the SIG?
• Do you have other
ideas, suggestions, interests?