Sultan Qaboos University

College of Education
Learning & Instructional Technology Department
TECH4102: Evaluation in Educational Technology
Spring 2009

Evaluating an E-learning Tutorial

"Workplace English"

Done by:
Amal AL-Balushi (66755)
Khadeejah AL-Shidhani (61344)

Course instructor:
Dr Alaa Sadik, alaasadik@squ.edu.om
Overview:
This project is about e-learning tutorial that is provided by Athabasca University. The
tutorial contains lessons and interactive exercises for practicing English grammar. It helps
to improve communication in the workplace which is divided into the following sections:
• Trades and Labour. • Health and Wellness.
• Administration and • Utilities-Oil/Gas/Mining.
Clerical. • Retail and Sales.
• Banking and Personal • Food Services and
Finance. Restaurant.
• Hospitality and Tourism.
It includes 86 units contained in the following grammar
sections:
• Adjectives & Adverbs. • The Basic Sentence.
• Comparison. • Questions.
• When? • Verbs.
• Where? • The Passive.
• How & Why? • The Noun Phrase.
• Connecting Ideas • Types of sentences.
It uses a variety of media such as text, audio and video.
This is the link for the tutorials: http://www.wpeau.ca/
Purpose:
Evaluating the learning environment of Workplace English
in terms of:
• Tutorial and assessment component.
• Interaction component.
• Management component.
• Support component.
Instruments:
The researchers used some items from the survey
provided by the Centre for Research in Distance & Adult Learning
in The Open University of Hong Kong. It is provided in this site
http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/doviles/index.html.
They used Survey Console to create their survey in. Their
survey includes 4 sections:
 • Tutorial & Assessment (13 items).
• Interaction (13 items).
• Management (5 items).
• Support (14 items).
It is provided in this link
http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=570298

Participants:
The sample of the study was 20 university students. The
link of the survey was sent to them via the e-mail.
Results:
The survey results show that the tutorial environment is
effective. Most participants scores range between strongly agree
and agree for most of the survey items (see the appendix).
For the assessment and tutorial component, more than
50% of the participants have chosen one of the two options
(strongly agree, agree) for all the items.
However, in the interaction component all items have been
agreed on by more than 50% participants except the following
items, which are mostly related to the collaboration between
students:
• I cooperate with fellow students online
• I have made friends with other students on this course.
• I get my tutor's feedback on my assignments via the
Internet.
• I communicate with other students on this course online.
• The course promotes collaboration among fellow students

For the management component, more than 60% of the

participants have agreed on most of the items.
Finally for the support component, all items have been
agreed on by more than 50% of the participants except one
which is:
• The technician is available for fixing computer hardware
problems.
 Conclusion:
From the previous shown results it's obvious that the
environment of the online tutorial is effective in all aspects except
in the collaboration facilities. The designers of the tutorial should
put more concern on providing collaboration facilities for students
to share and help each other, especially when it comes to the
issue of isolation among online learners.

Appendixes
Survey Report : Evaluation of E-learning tutorial
Survey Statistics

Viewed
20

Started
20

Completed
20

Completion Rate
100%

Drop Outs (After Starting)

0

• Average time taken to complete survey : 1 minute(s)