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PART 2: AUDIENCES ADDRESSED
All evaluation is rhetorical, directed toward particular audiences and serving particular purposes. This section explains the audiences addressed by the models proposed in Part 3, teachers, students, researchers, parents, administrators, and CAETI program partners. Different audiences, obviously, have different needs and expectations for learning in MOOs and MUDs. They have different requirements for representing and reporting learning.
Teachers
Teachers are one of our primary audiences for the models we have developed. Teachers often design and participate in activities in MOOs and MUDs intended to support student learning. They are also responsible for accounting for individual students' achievement. And increasingly they are expected to explicitly connect students' online activity with curricular goals. As teachers who use MOOs extensively in our own classes, we are very familiar with many of the challenges, frustrations, and rewards of working with these environments. It can be difficult to integrate MOO activity into an existing curriculum, to design engaging activities for students, to provide guidance as needed, to observe student progress, or to make any kind of an evaluation of achievement or progress. Further, competing demands on teachers severely limit the amount of time and energy teachers have to devote to this project. Figure 1, above, represents a kind of "wish list" for a system to make this process more manageable for already overburdened teachers.
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