Evaluating E-Learning

Preface

When I was nine, I sent away for a pair of X-ray glasses advertised in the back of a Superman comic book. The advertisement promised that I would be able to see through objects. To my disappointment, all I could see were halos of light around the edges of objects. It was a tough lesson about exaggerated claims.

As a young trainer, I came across a recommendation to intersperse short training sessions with naps for the students. The recommendation seemed a bit strange, but it claimed to be based on research and included the universal seal of approval: a bibliographic citation. After I tried the procedure and could not get it to work, I tracked down the article cited. It turned out that the article merely summarized research done elsewhere. ...