EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2011 Online Spring Focus Session: Seeking Evidence of Impact
Join us April 13 and 14 for “Seeking Evidence of Impact,” the 2011 ELI Online Spring Focus Session, where we will engage the teaching and learning community in exploring initial questions on seeking evidence. Do our innovations accomplish our desired outcomes? How do we define “impact”? How do we measure impact? Through plenary sessions and various institutional case studies, we will:
- Examine research strategies designed to evaluate teaching and learning innovation and practice
- Review various approaches and designs for collecting evidence
- Explore evaluation tools and methodologies and how they can be used to effectively measure the impact of our innovations and practices
- Discuss evidence-of-impact challenges and opportunities at various institutional levels and across various institutional types and controls (public, private, two year, four year)
- Learn how to infuse instructional objectives and pedagogy into the evidence-seeking process
- Tour institutional case studies and the research frameworks that have been used to evaluate their effectiveness and construct future improvements