Title: Week 5: Implement and evaluate your course (Step 4)
Course: Blended learning and distance education skills > Section: Course Content

What are the success criteria for a blended course. In the implementation and evaluation plan the practical issues are addressed when running the blended course. As 1 week is to short to follow the complete process of implementation the focus is on preparing and planning.

After this week you are able to:

- Develop a implementation and evaluation plan

Due to the scheduling of your course, it is maybe not possible to actually implement the whole course in this week. Instead, you can use this week to plan ahead for the actual implementation and evaluation.

Activity 5.1: Write the implementation plan

The following questions can guide you in developing an implementation plan:

1. In which setting do you want to implement the design and materials you developed? In full class, or maybe start with a small group? Do you first want to do a test run with colleagues or with a selected group of students?
2. Which facilities need to be in place to successfully execute your design? Do you need some equipment, technical support, a special classroom, software that needs to be installed, colleagues that should be trained, etc.?
3. What is the time frame for the implementation?
4. What results would you like to achieve that can be evaluated?

It is good to write these decisions down in a document and share it with the people you work with and ask for their feedback. You can also ask for our feedback by posting your implementation plan in the Course Forum.

Activity 5.2: Write the evaluation plan

Evaluations are in general conducted to check if the goals that you wanted to achieve actually have been met and to see what can be improved for the next run of the course. The following questions should be addressed in the evaluation plan:

- Which questions do you want to answer through the evaluation?
- With whom will you evaluate? Staff, students, ..?
- Which instruments are most suitable to answer these questions?
- When will you do the evaluation: along the way (process evaluation) or at the end (outcome evaluation) or both?
- What will you do with the results?

You can hand in your evaluation plan for feedback via the Course Forum.