ABSTRACT
This chapter explores why and how evaluation of an educational innovation is a normal part of the process of teaching. A microeconomics resource pack of textual information in PowerPoint and low-level multiple-choice questions was given very high ratings by the students, who also performed well in examinations. Evaluation is a reflective and ongoing process which has a different emphasis at each stage of the e-learning life cycle, but which has the same general steps. Committed academic teachers take every opportunity to fine-tune their teaching and resources with each new cohort of learners. The chapter examines how a comparative study could be designed using a hypothetical example in the area of science education. A more descriptive methodology using qualitative methods could be employed in order to inform the researcher about what learners thought they had learned and what skills learners were seen to develop.
