Britain & Liber – evaluation framework

Having stressed their “overriding concern” to match pedagogical orientation of a system to its intended use in teaching and learning, Britain & Liber (1999)[1] suggest one way of constructing an evaluation framework is to determine how well learning resources are incorporated to facilitate student-centred approaches to learning.

Britain & Liber (1999) acknowledged there are various ways that VLEs might facilitate student-centred approaches but observed that currently, there is no established evaluation methodology from a pedagogical perspective with which to assess different systems adding that “most discussions and evaluative reviews of VLEs to date have tended to concentrate on the features, technical details and pricing of different systems”.

[1] Britain, S. & Liber, O. (2004) A Framework for Pedagogical Evaluation of VLEs, JTAP. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/jtap-041.doc