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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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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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