*Note: I'm not currently accepting freelance gigs--building Purpose Portfolio has me pretty much at capacity :) Thanks for your interest, and feel free to drop me a line if I can help find the right designer for your project. `sj
All in Evaluation
Should SROI be measured? Good luck with that. Should it be calculated? Perhaps, when it fits. Should it be demonstrated? Whenever possible. Should it be explored? Always.
Why can't we have some kind of genuinely objective perspective? The answer's pretty simple: the genuinely objective observers don't CARE enough to do the careful analysis.
I've been vexed all week. Really, vexed. Here's a selection of the blog posts I didn't write this week: "Why Open Education Won't Save the World," "Lurking and Ignorance in Qualitative Research" and "The Malignant Delusion of Educational Assessment.” Like I said... vexed.
Did we design these pages with the object of preparing our students to read scholarly literature, to test their intellectual endurance? Or was it just because this way was easier? Because it’s the way we’ve always done it, or even, perhaps, because it makes us feel smart?
Even as we look at beautifully-created Excel graphs that expertly bring home the enormity of the first-lesson-drop-off effect, I hear echoes of Andre the Giant in the Princess Bride; “I’m not sure that means what you think it means.”
The following are a few examples [untainted by any sort of experience with the subject matter, and irrespective of what is currently regarded as possible] of metrics I would find useful for gauging and improving the effectiveness of an instructional website:
