Evaluation checklist for managing educational technology projects : the experience of faculty of environmental design in KAU, Saudi Arabia

Abstract EN

The management of technology projects in academic institutions is a real problem, especially with the increase in projects' scale.

Many of these projects suffered considerable delays in the plan and scheduling while others completely failed to achieve their objectives.

There is a shortage in research that deals with the design of tools to help and guide the managers of technology projects in academic institutions to manage their projects efficiently.

In particular, project managers are often faculty members not project managers professionals.

Therefore, they need to have simple and effective means to help them assess and monitor the performance of their projects.

This study tries to develop an Instructional Technology Project Evaluation Checklist (ITPEC).

Then, uses this checklist to evaluate the implementation of a technology project, as a case study.

Based on a comprehensive review of literature a preliminary version of the checklist was designed.

Validation of the preliminary checklist was based on two methods: expert panel survey and case study evaluation.

The final version of the checklist includes 48 checkpoints in the form of questions grouped into three groups according to the three phases of the project structure: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Then, ITPEC was used in the evaluation of a case study implementation of an eCollege Project, which was implemented at the Faculty of Environmental Design, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.

Quantitative analysis of the data derived from the application of ITPEC to the case study showed many positive aspects and also some shortcomings to be addressed in the future.