The FutureU team can help you develop and deliver instruments to assess the effectiveness of your online courses and other e-learning activities. Determine what can be done better and implement appropriate changes. We provide assessments of both student satisfaction with e-learning opportunities and actual learning outcomes. We can also help your faculty determine what the best evaluation methods are for assessing learning outcomes from their own online courses or other e-learning activities.
Deepen your ability to assess the impact of any learning. How can you tell if people actually learned what you wanted them to learn? A "happy-face" evaluation only measures participant satisfaction. Achievement tests are notorious for revealing more about the testing process itself than about how well anyone will apply what was taught. The real questions often go unanswered: Did skill level or behavior actually change? By how much? And in what ways? Did performance of practical applications improve? Did participation become qualitatively better?
Let FutureU help you create a system of semi-automated, customizable assessment tools using these approaches:
"Kirkpatrick" Evaluation | "360" Degree Feedback | "Empowerment" Evaluation
Because the system we help you build is partially automated, responses are easily retrieved for review and comparison. Because the tools invite in-depth answers, respondents feel empowered. Faculty and students clarify their perspective on the overall learning experience. You gain a superior measure of the extent to which your learning objectives produce desired outcomes.
FutureU can provide custom online evaluations of any kind or size in a variety of different ways. Also available is ongoing or "spot" consultation to assist in planning, delivery, and analysis of any evaluation project. Our long experience with academic grading and evaluation and population research, as well as information technology puts us in a unique position to assist you. [ Read more about our research capabilities or our research team. ]
One of the most widely used training evaluation methods in the field. Addresses participant feedback, standard testing, behavior change, and overall impact on return on investment in learning technology.
Priced according to degree of customization, number of subjects, and detail of report. Plus travel time and expenses for optional presentation.
Feedback to any individual about performance from fellow students, faculty, and other "stakeholder" groups. An excellent tool for use as a guide in creating an individualized learning plan within any degree or certificate program.
Priced according to degree of customization, number of subjects, and detail of report. Plus travel time and expenses for optional presentation.
A self-evaluation tool for individuals and groups of learners, designed by FutureU's world-class team of evaluation professionals to provide a more in-depth assessment of results. Before the learning experience, this tool asks participants to describe their current perspective and learning goals. Afterwards, it asks them to comment on their own progress, using tangible, real world data, such as increases in performance or positive feedback from peers and teachers or mentors.
Priced according to degree of customization, number of subjects, and detail of report. Plus travel time and expenses for optional presentation.
Call 415-824-7726 or email query[at]futureu.com for further information.
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