Course Design Ideas from Canvas Analytics
Do you ever wonder where your students go once they log into an online course? John Whitmer (Blackboard analytics, blog link) and Kevin Reeve (instructor and director of Teaching and Learning Technologies at Utah State University, Canvas Analytics video link) did some hard work to seek answers to this question. Kevin presented his team’s preliminary results at Online Learning Consortium conference in Nov. 2016. Some of the findings were obvious, some not so. My question is: what can we do with this information? How can we use this learning analytics to guide our course design practices as online instructors and online instructional designers? Here is a summary of Kevin’s report and my ideas of course design based on learning analytics … Course Design Ideas from Canvas Analytics
