e-Learning Research and Evaluation

The Ministry of Education commissions a variety of research and evaluation around the impact of e-learning practices in education. Overall the Ministry's research and evaluation of e-learning aims to:

1. Assess the impacts of Ministry e-learning initiatives across the education sector to strengthen planning and implementation
2. Explore e-learning practices that make a positive difference to learning
3. Support educators to make critical and reflective pedagogical decisions about their use of e-learning.

This page contains links to completed e-learning research and evaluation projects, in-progress projects, and some national and international web sites relating to e-learning research and evaluation.

Publications

The Ministry of Education has published a number of research reports on e-learning, which are available from the e-Learning publication home page.

20/20 Communications Trust
The 20/20 Communications Trust published the 2005 ICT in Schools Report which continues the biannual national survey series that started in 1993. The report tracks New Zealand schools' infrastructure, internet access and use, e-learning developments, and ICT professional development.

International Sites of Interest

PISA

The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has released a report Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World? What PISA Studies Tell Us. The report has data from 41 countries including New Zealand that participated in PISA 2003. It looks at students' home and school access to ICT, the ways they use computers and their attitudes towards ICT. It also compares this data with achievement in reading and mathematics. Student ICT questions were repeated in PISA 2006.

BECTA provides supports the UK Government's strategic direction for ICT in education through research focusing on the integration and impacts of ICTs in schools. The site contains a range of research that focus on teacher and school dimensions of ICT integration. http://www.becta.org.uk/index.cfm. The site also has information about doing practitioner research in ICT.

Naace is a UK professional association for advancing education through the appropriate use of information and communications technology. http://www.naace.org/index.asp

This UK organisation undertakes ICT research with an emphasis on future schooling and learning. The site contains a number of literature reviews and ICT project evaluation reports. http://www.nestafuturelab.org/index.htm

The Australian education portal EdNA online contains an ICT and School Education Research website with links to national and international research into ICT and teaching and learning, and research into ICT and change management in schools. http://ictresearch.edna.edu.au/ictresearch/go

Other ICT material

	More ICT information, including strategies, programmes, and events supporting and promoting the effective use of information and communication technologies in early childhood centres and schools can be found on the Ministry of Education's web site at: ICT Strategy for Early Childhood Education ICT in Schools
	The ICT Community on Te Kete Ipurangi provides information and materials relevant to ICT teaching and learning.

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