| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
|
| Roundtable Rotation I:
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Collaboration and Capacity Building: Challenges and Lessons Learned for International Organizations |
|
Roundtable Presentation 482 to be held in Lido A on Thursday, Nov 3, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
|
|
Sponsored by the International and Cross-cultural Evaluation TIG
and the Integrating Technology Into Evaluation
|
| Presenter(s):
|
| Gretchen Shanks, Mercy Corps, gshanks@mercycorps.org
|
| Scott Chaplowe, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, scott.chaplowe@ifrc.org
|
| Abstract:
M&E is greatly enhanced when we're able to leverage the experience and expertise of individual field and HQ teams to catalyze organizational learning. However, with increasing environmental concern and responsibility among international organizations to reduce their carbon footprints, along with the need for wise stewardship of resources in difficult economic times, in-person learning and training opportunities for M&E practitioners are limited. This, combined with the potential outreach and reduced costs of the Internet, has lead some organizations to explore online learning and collaboration tools. What are the key strategies and best practices in online learning and field-to-field collaboration and technical assistance when applied to M&E capacity building? What are some inherent challenges, and what steps can be taken to mitigate them? This roundtable will examine these and other questions, drawing upon the recent experiences of Mercy Corps and IFRC.
|
| Roundtable Rotation II:
The Challenges of Collecting Evaluative Data Across Long Distances Rather Than Face-To-Face |
|
Roundtable Presentation 482 to be held in Lido A on Thursday, Nov 3, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
|
|
Sponsored by the International and Cross-cultural Evaluation TIG
and the Integrating Technology Into Evaluation
|
| Presenter(s):
|
| Robert Ruhf, Western Michigan University, robert.ruhf@wmich.edu
|
| Abstract:
Science and Mathematics Program Improvement (SAMPI), an evaluation center at Western Michigan University, has several national and distant projects for which we are often unable to be present when it is time to collect evaluative data (surveys, questionnaires, pre/post tests, interviews, etc.). Much of the data is instead collected online, by phone, or by other long distance methods. This can create its own unique set of challenges that are not present when data are collected face-to-face. The presenter will discuss examples of projects for which data need to be collected at a distance, as well as challenges that go along with that (such as lack of interaction, dependence on others to administer evaluation instruments correctly, etc.). The presenter will then engage round table participants in a discussion of the sorts of similar situations they have you encountered in their own evaluation work, as well has how they addressed those situations.
|