D’Arcy Norman has written a post about models of evaluating education technology, which reminded me of some work I did a few years ago that I meant to blog about, but never did.

One of the duties I had with BCcampus when I was Manager of EdTech was to manage systematic collaborative evaluations of education technology. As part of that work, I did some research on existing education technology evaluation methods. I am sharing this here in an effort to share what I learned specifically with D’Arcy as he may be interested in these for his own research, and to set the stage for a future blog post that will outline a methodology (called CAREET) that I began developing to support BCcampus sandbox projects.

Established EdTech evaluation methodologies

In the course of my research, I came across these different models of evaluating education technologies. I haven’t added much of my own context or analysis around many of these. But thought it could still be useful to some as a starting point for someone looking for tools to help evaluate education technology.

• RAIT (Rapid Assessment of Educational Technologies)
  • RAIT Survey Tool
• Comprehensive evaluation rubric for assessment of learning apps (PDF)
• TPACK Framework (building upon Shulman’s PCK theory)
• SAMR
  • TPACK or SAMR – a good blog post critique of both models
  • Also worth reading JR Dingwell’s critique SAMR for Digital Teaching?
• TIM – Technology Integration Matrix
• RAT – Replacement, Amplification, Transformation. Similar to SAMR
  • RAT Questionairre
• Graphite from Common Sense- love this site for edtech reviews. Aimed at k-12, i think there is a lot here that could be emulated in higher education edtech evaluation & review process.
• CWiC Framework supports post-secondary decision-makers in effectively navigating the market of courseware solutions. It is designed to help you make better-informed adoption and implementation decisions with the goal of advancing the adoption of high-quality digital courseware in higher education and ultimately achieving improved outcomes for students.
• Rubric for evaluation of e-learning tools Western University
• Evaluating EdTech Research Studies (PDF) not a framework per se, but a useful tool to evaluate research studies done on education technology tools. From Digital Promise.
• EdTech Efficacy Research Symposium Publishings
  • The Role of Research in Higher Ed Decision Making (PDF)
  • Evidence & Quality of Efficacy Research (PDF)

In my next post CAREET.