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An Infrastructure Approach for the Evaluation of E-Learning

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Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research (WSKS 2010)

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This paper presents an infrastructure approach for the evaluation of e-learning. It elaborates [12]’s concept of infrastructures for learning considering a cognitive, an epistemological, a social and a technical infrastructure. Within each infrastructure, the paper takes specific aspects that are important for evaluation. The paper concludes with stressing the importance of evaluation for building knowledge societies.

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  1. Universität der Bundeswehr München, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85579, Neubiberg, Germany

    Bernhard Ertl & Katharina Ebner

  2. Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, N. Plastira, Vassilika Vouton, 70013, Heraklion, Greece

    Kathy Kikis-Papadakis

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  1. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  3. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Adrian Ziderman

  4. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Alan Roulstone

  5. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Hermann Maurer

  6. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Jonathan B. Imber

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Ertl, B., Ebner, K., Kikis-Papadakis, K. (2010). An Infrastructure Approach for the Evaluation of E-Learning. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez De Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16318-0_11

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