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7 Practical evaluation<br />

7 PRACTICAL EVALUATION<br />

To evaluate the EFTECS and the HEAT it was necessary to undertake some face-<br />

to-face interviews and evaluation to get significant results from educational ex-<br />

perts. This was successfully completed and presented in chapter 6.<br />

The interview evaluation <strong>of</strong> the HEAT resulted in several insights into the feasi-<br />

bility <strong>of</strong> the created EFTECS framework. The interviews with the test candidates<br />

showed that the HEAT could be used to create educational material for online de-<br />

livery on a more fine-grained approach than other existing research projects, e.g.<br />

LOM [137]. Additionally, the interview evaluation not only suggested the the-<br />

oretical basis <strong>of</strong> this PhD, but also helped to identify some problems within the<br />

EFTECS and the HEAT.<br />

Furthermore, it was discovered during the interview evaluation that more insights<br />

into the EFTECS and the HEAT could be gained if an additional evaluation on a<br />

more practical level was undertaken.<br />

To achieve this additional goal it was decided to create some new educational<br />

material and to convert some existing material with the HEAT. Due to the com-<br />

plexity and estimated long duration <strong>of</strong> these two tasks it has been decided that<br />

they had to be done by the author. The problems connected with this decision will<br />

be addressed in section 8.3.<br />

7.1 Design<br />

It was necessary to apply the HEAT and the functionality <strong>of</strong> the HEAT to a broader<br />

range <strong>of</strong> educational material. In order to get more information about the capabili-<br />

ties <strong>of</strong> the HEAT it was important to create and convert some educational material<br />

which is used in a real educational scenario.<br />

However, a complete conversion <strong>of</strong> large educational modules, for example a com-<br />

plete course book, is not regarded necessary as long as some significant parts <strong>of</strong> it<br />

are created with the HEAT.<br />

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