Theme 4: Evaluating Educational Technologies

In this theme, we are going to look at how one should go about evaluating
Educational Technologies. We are going to look at this at both a micro, meso and
macro levels.

Questions we are going to address in this theme are:

• How does one know that educational software is good?

• What models can be used to assess educational software?
• Has ICT’s had a learning impact on schools?
• How can a monitoring and evaluation plan be developed for the
introduction of ICT’s in schools?
• What are the challenges that we are facing in South Africa