Seeking Evidence of Impact: Opportunities and Needs (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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Conversations with CIOs and other senior IT administrators reveal a keen interest in the results of evaluation in teaching and learning to guide fiscal, policy, and strategic decision-making. Yet those same conversations reveal that this need is not being met.
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gain a wider and shared understanding of “evidence” and “impact” in teaching and learning
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establish a community of practice
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The SEI program is working with the teaching and learning community to gather evidence of the impact of instructional innovations and current practices and to help evaluate the results. The calls for more accountability in higher education, the shrinking budgets that often force larger class sizes, and the pressures to increase degree-completion rates are all raising the stakes for colleges and universities today, especially with respect to the instructional enterprise. As resources shrink, teaching and learning is becoming the key point of accountability. The evaluation of instructional practice would thus seem to be an obvious response to such pressures, with institutions implementing systematic programs of evaluation in teaching and learning, especially of instructional innovations.