CISAER is a project supported by the European Leonardo da Vinci programme. The project aims to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of course provision on the WWW with professional analysis, balanced evaluation and far-reaching recommendations which will provide the field of vocational education and training in the EU with a tool for dealing with this new training dimension.

• Ana Dias, Tecminho, Portugal
• Desmond Keegan, Distance Education International, Ireland.
• Robin Mason, The Open University, UK
• Morten Flate Paulsen and Torstein Rekkedal, NKI, Norway

The CISAER Catalogue: An annotated web catalogue of 130 institutions that provide Internet courses with some use of the web.

Additions to the CISAER Catalogue: The additions to the CISAER catalogue include 17 entries.

The CISAER Catalogue Analysis: This is a 25-page
report that analyzes and discusses the information in the catalogue entries.

The CISAER project partners have made in-depth interviews with 76 experts found in the CISAER catalogue. The interviews have been analyzed and the results will be published at this site. The interviews were made according to this interview guide.

Tools for analysis of course design
Report on Course Analysis (HTML)
Report on Course Analysis (PDF)

Torstein Rekkedal: The CISAER Project and Evaluation Working Document for the CISAER Project, 2nd version, February 2000
Morten Flate Paulsen: An Abstract of the Report: Online Education - An International Analysis of Web-based Education and Strategic Recommendations for Decision Makers

Introduction to the final reports
Chapter 1: Survey of courses on the WWW (PDF)
Chapter 2: Analysis of courses on the WWW
Chapter 3: An International Analysis of Web-based Education and Strategic Recommendations for Decision Makers (PDF)
Chapter 4: Report on WWW Course Analysis (PDF)
Chapter 5: Educational Evaluation; Distance Education Evaluation; WWW Course Evaluation
Chapter 6: Use of the Web for Higher Education: Is Europe A Serious Player?
Chapter 7: Evaluation of the use of the web for educational proposes in Southern Europe and Latin America
Chapter 8: Evaluation of courses on the WWW (PDF)
Chapter 9: The CISAER course How to put courses on the World Wide Web
Chapter 10: Recommendations
Chapter 11: Catalogue of courses on the WWW