TLT/Flashlight Web site on learning space design and evaluation – This web site, created by Steve Ehrmann, summarizes the Flashlight approach to evaluating physical, blended, and virtual learning Mini Flashlight spaces (e.g., classrooms, course management systems, libraries, …) .

TLT Flashlight Web site on formative evaluation of ePortfolio initiatives. Sample of subscriber materials, created by Steve Ehrmann. The Flashlight approach begins by identifying the different activities which the use of the technology is intended to improve. The center from which the Flashlight inquiry spreads is that set of activities: are they changing? where? why or why not? with what consequences? What are the strengths and weaknesses of eportfolios for carrying out these specific activities? how does the use of eportfolios alter the costs and stresses associated with these activities? and so on?

TLT/Flashlight web site on evaluation of institutional portals. Sample of subscriber materials, created by Steve Ehrmann. Uses the same model described above for eportfolios, but around activities which the use of institutional portals is supposed to improve.

Ehrmann, Stephen C. (1999), “Studying Teaching, Learning and Rechargeable Flashlight Technology: a Tool Kit from the Flashlight Program,” Revision of article originally published in Active Learning IX (December 1998), pp. 38-42. This somewhat technical essay shows how to design Flashlight-style studies whose findings can show a program how its technology can foster better educational outcomes. The essay is illustrated with questions drawn from the Flashlight Current Student Inventory. The article explains key Flashlight concepts such as ‘blob, ‘triad,’ and scenario.

Ehrmann, Stephen C. “The Flashlight Project: Spotting an Elephant in the Dark” . This article gives a general description of the design of the Flashlight Program, arguing that a tight focus is essential to seeing anything when studying teaching and learning with technology. The essay summarizes the history of the Flashlight Program and briefly describes the content and organization of the Flashlight Current Student Inventory.

Ehrmann, Stephen C. and Robin Etter Zuniga , The Flashlight Project Planning Grant. Final Report This report on the original planning grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education Battery Flashlight (FIPSE) describes the roots of the Flashlight Program’s tools in more detail.About the Flashlight Program and Its Approach to Studying Technology Use and Learning.