Central Institute for Distance Education Research - FernUniversität in Hagen
6.März 1998
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Unlike distance education courses we are not able to quantify results of participation in terms of learning objectives reached or not, since learning objectives had not been formulated in an operational way and there was no kind of pretest whatsoever. As expected, participation went down during the seminar as it will in all educational offerings which have no set of rules for achievement and no possibility to sanction discontinuation. The mass of insights for running such a seminar may well be on the side of the organizers rather than on the side of participants. The phase where technical difficulties occurred was more a European phenomenon and diminished during the seminar. Not all experts in the scenery are of the same routine to use the new media as the average participant. Cross-Atlantic contact was lower than expected. Critical comments from participants who attended the face to face meetings are few: almost unanimously participants would suggest to have such seminars again. The seminar seems to have reached its goals. From the evaluators point of view: unanimously participants say not only that they enjoyed the seminar but also that they would participate again. (96%).