Content analysis university e-learning implementation: The Ps Framework
Background
All around the world universities are making decisions around e-learning. Generally, it's a decision about which LMS they should adopt. It's our belief (at least one of us, anyway) that many of those evaluations are somewhat limited.
This work aims to find out whether or not the evaluations are limited and, if so, how they are limited.
To do this we're going to do a content analysis on as many reports/working parties etc from universities which document and justify the evaluation process they performed.
The content analysis will use and contribute to the "Ps Framework". A local produced framework for understanding components of such an evaluation. The "Ps framework" started life as the "missing Ps framework". More information can be found in the blog posts and this presentation
Related resources
Related resources include
- discussion about this page
- The tagged resources shown below
- Ps framework related resources
- Ps Framework
- list of LMS evaluation pointers from Kljun et al (2007)
Basic process
- Define and explain the Ps framework in more detail
- David needs to do this
- Find as many documents around university evaluations of e-learning/lms
- We're generally relying on evaluations that are in the public domain - are on the web. Those we find are being tagged with "lmsEvaluations" on del.icio.us.
- Select some of them
- At some stage we need to figure out what mechanism we will use to select the evaluations we will use in the content analysis. We might, perhaps, use CQU's evaluation report recommending Blackboard from a couple of years ago as our first test.
- Perform the content analysis
- We need to formulate the specific process we'll use. Initially we probably need to gather resources and more information. We'll tag with "contentAnalysisBasics" ("contentAnalysis" is already being heavily used).
- Write the paper
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Evaluations Posted by davidj1 on 14 September 2008 A WetPaint wiki being used by CQUni academics to share information and insights gained during an evaluation of Moodle and Sakai. Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle at e-Literate Posted by davidj1 on 24 March 2008 Blog post about a survey of American community colleges and e-learning - including mention of Moodle going ahead while Bb and Sakai are going backwards Louisiana State University Moves to Moodle at e-Literate Posted by davidj1 on 7 November 2007
Posted by beerc on 14 October 2007 QUT. Seemingly flawed justifications for moving to BB An Evaluation of Open Source E- Learning Platforms Stressing Adaptation Posted by davidj1 on 2 October 2007 Conference paper with the following abstract..."This paper presents an evaluation of open source elearning platforms. The main focus is on adaptation issues. The result of the evaluation shows that the platform Moodle outperforms all other platforms and a bates lms evaluation workgroup | Posted by d.clark on 24 September 2007
Learning and Performance Measurement Solutions from Zeroed-In Technologies Posted by d.clark on 24 September 2007 LMS Requirements Gathering and Evaluation Services A Multi-attribute Decision Support Model for Learning Management Systems Evaluation Posted by d.clark on 24 September 2007
Posted by d.clark on 24 September 2007
Learning Management Systems II - Strategic Review - CSU, Chico Posted by d.clark on 24 September 2007
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Content Analysis The Content Analysis Guidebook Online Posted by davidj1 on 16 September 2007 Supplemental website for a text on content analysis. Has some useful links to software and examples of coding forms An overview of content analysis. Stemler, Steve Posted by davidj1 on 16 September 2007 An online journal articles giving an overview on content analysis Posted by davidj1 on 16 September 2007 The wikipedia page on content analysis. Includes a useful "6 questions" to be addressed in every content analysis.
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