About Us

The e-Learning Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that sponsors research about how to effectively use the Internet as a learning resource. As part of that effort, we have established this Internet site that will offer on-line courses, tests, and assessments for all levels of education. 

On the site we offer many opportunities to: 

Students: 

• Take assessments.
• Take reviews that are imbedded in the assessments.
• Receive immediate feedback about your mastery of the subjects.

Parents: 

• Review existing assessments and recommend them to your children.
• Monitor your child’s progress in subject areas.

Teachers: 

• Review existing assessments and recommend them to your students.
• Incorporate assessments into your curricula.
• Contribute assessments and subject reviews and receive royalties.

Schools and other non-profit organizations: 

• Set up your own ‘private’ on-line school with open and password protected assessments and reviews.

To find out more how you can participate in our programs, click on Contact Us.

 Remember, in the world of learning, the best environment is to have a great teacher and to be with a group of participating students. We are here to help that process. 

Mission

Effective learning is not just about the efficient transfer of certain quantities of knowledge, but it is also about developing skills and attitudes for life-long-learning,  about effective assessment and remedial processes, about experiencing the joy of learning, and about both factual knowledge and developing good judgment. Internet-based electronic learning (e-learning) provides the education community with a powerful new tool for successful education programs with these qualities. The e-Learning Research Foundation will foster a community of educators and their sponsors to accelerate the development and integration of effective e-learning programs into the standard educational process.   

To do this, the Foundation will sponsor and publish research to establish:  

·          The effectiveness of the Internet for teaching and assessment;  

·          The features of Internet content that produce the best results from teaching and assessment;  

·          A set of benchmark criteria to be used to evaluate Internet-based learning curriculum, courses, course creation software, knowledge assessments, neurodevelopment systems assessments, and educational institutions offering Internet-based learning programs;  

To complete its mission, the Foundation will engage in activities that will produce: 

·          A variety of demonstration Internet learning courses and assessments for different subject matter and grade levels;  

·          In collaboration with the Center for Development and Learning (Dr. Mel Levine, Director), create demonstrations of Internet-based assessments and remedial exercises for the eight neurodevelopmental systems - Attention Control; Memory; Language; Spatial Ordering; Sequential Ordering; Motor; Higher Thinking; and Social Thinking).  

·          Demonstrations of remedial programs for courses and developmental systems. 

·          A variety of demonstrations of e-learning constructivism projects.  

·          Evaluation services that will evaluate e-learning curricula, courses, lesson plans, assessments, and Internet educational software including: 

·          Course creation software

·          Course management software

·          Assessment and testing software

·          Constructivism project creation software 

·          A foundation web site (www.ouronlineschools.org) that will publish research project results; demonstration ‘on-line’ schools; demonstration courses, lesson plans, assessments and tests; demonstration constructivism projects; and e-learning site evaluations. 

Scope: K-12 education. 

Stakeholders: schools, students, teachers, parents, administrators, education teaching institutions, education vendors, and education research sponsors.  

 Grants

The e-Learning Research Foundation provides grants to K-12 teachers for the development and testing of e-learning content. This content may consist of: 

Educational subject matter including lesson plans, mini-courses, and entire courses.  

Assessment subject matter that includes quizzes, course tests and exams, developmental assessments, etc.

Development of e-learning content is accomplished using tools that are provided at no cost by the e-Learning foundation. These tools consist of: 

            Course and assessment development software;

            Course management software;

            Access to our Internet hosting servers;

            Training on all software and the hosting service. 

Grants are available to teachers for each project. 

Grant Applications: 

Grant applications to the Foundation should contain the following: 

            Teacher name and affiliation. 

            Content description (subject matter, grade level). 

            Unique features of the Internet that will be used to deliver the content. 

            Content design alternatives that will be tested. 

            Design for results testing and documentation. 

            Outline for a project summary report.

Donations

If you would like to make a donation to support the work of the e-Learning Research Foundation, please contact:

The e-Learning Research Foundation

Charlotte, NC

Gerard A. Doyle, Executive Director

704-362-1328