2. Background on evaluating courses designed on VLEs:

We explore several different models for evaluating VLEs:

• Britain & Liber
• Mason
• Laurillard
• Stafford Beer
• Helen Beetham

and we decide to use the following models for evaluation:

• Chickering & Gamson’s ‘Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education’
• Gilly Salmon's 5-step model for eLearning