6.02 Evaluation of learning criteria

I am finding it difficult to identify 10 key points for assessing a piece of CBT. Most of the sites visited seem to offer more complex solutions.

Though not strictly CBT the CIDOC: Multimedia Working Group: Multimedia Evaluation Criteria highlights the need to break the criteria into five sections:

• Content
• Functionality
• Interface
• Implementation
• Overall Impact

Some of the questions within the sections would seem to be relevant to any 'web' based products.

A more comprehensive 'method' is available through peer review of an online course. This has five main sections as follows:

• Instructional design
  • clarity of expectations
  • building student knowledge
  • learning activities
  • assessment
  • evaluation
  • human interaction
  • support
• Interface design
• use of media
  • interactive multimedia
  • writing style/text accuracy
  • copyright
• technical aspects
• comments
  

It is also worth considering the more general evaluations for web sites in genreal e.g. Ten usability Heuristics or guidlines for multimedia on the web.

Two sites offering links to other papers on evaluation are LTDE and peer review