Assessing the Value of E-Learning Systems

Assessing the Value of E-Learning Systems provides an extensive literature review pulling theories from the field of information systems, psychology and cognitive sciences, distance and online learning, as well as marketing and decision sciences. This book provides empirical evidence for the power of measuring value in the context of e-learning systems.

Assessing the Value of E-Learning Systems offers a set of benchmarking tools, such as the Value-Satisfaction grids and LeVIS index, to help administrators of e-learning programs realize the key effective characteristics of their program. The book concludes with a "cook book" guidelines approach on how to implement the proposed theory and tools in the reader's own e-learning program.

Dissatisfied with conventional measures of satisfaction with e- learning systems in assessing their value, Levy (computer and information sciences, Nova Southeastern U.) prefers to define satisfaction as "the perceived performance level users find at a post-experience of time with e-learning systems." Additionally, he identifies perceived value as a second, neglected dimension of system effectiveness, defining it as "an enduring core belief about the level of importance users attribute to the e-learning system." He constructs his methodology for measuring e-learning programs' effectiveness based on the multiplication of these two dimensions. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR