Online Learning Update

September 15, 2016

Brits Seek to Measure Learning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:09 am

by Elizabeth Redden, Inside HIgher Ed

A project led by the Open University is using data related to learning analytics — on student participation in online classes, for example, or on library log-ins. Bart Rienties, a reader in learning analytics at the Open University, a distance learning institution, said the project primarily relies on analysis of data already being collected by his university and the other two institutions in the project, Oxford Brookes University and the University of Surrey. “All three universities have data of what students are doing in terms of virtual learning environment engagement, so what we’re testing is can we indeed identify patterns of some students becoming more engaged in a virtual learning environment while others are moving in a different direction,” Rienties said. While the focus is on virtual learning, Rienties said the study is not looking only at online courses, but also at various online learning environments created to support traditional face-to-face classes.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/09/england-push-evaluate-teaching-quality-and-learning-gains

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