The following illustration is how we are enabling our research & evaluation in the cloud strategy. Using some simple, yet scalable SaaS tools, we are able to develop an end-to-end learning agenda. The process allows us to:
- Engage volunteers with an interest in evaluation & research to participate in our work in a meaningful way
- Provides a 360o view of the research agenda. We can build surveys & research methods to evaluate our internal operations & external programming
- For nearly no major cost to the organization, ability to scale research & evaluation strategy
- Results are publish online & real-time
- Connects to our social media strategy, getting the results & feedback out to our stakeholders very quickly
PROS
- Can create a survey & survey results page in under 3 hours
- With some simple formatting, add colour coding & other powerful publishing features
CONS
- The survey forms are not as robust as other survey engines
- You have to make sure permission settings are correct, or publishing to the web dosen't always work
