Measuring Success in e-Learning – a Multi-Dimensional Approach
Between 2001 and the current date, Northumbria University has seen a massive take-up of its e-learning platform. With the publication of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) e-learning strategy in 2005, it was timely to reflect upon how effective that take-up has been and how well the university matched onto the ten-year aspirations of that document and its measures of success. Consequently an exploration was embarked upon to try to measure where we were and what we should prioritise in order to embed e-learning, as envisaged within the HEFCE strategy. This involved a number of key approaches:
