Viualizing Learning Data

This is a presentation from the Open Learning Initiative.  You may have heard about their open courses and incredibly powerful software behind them. Anyone can use these courses for instruction and we have a grant funded group in SAM teaching a statistics course through OLI.

I've personally been very interested in learner data and how faculty can use it to improve teaching and learning. I presented on this topic earlier this year at Whatcom CC. 

Also, Canvas, through Canvas Analytics, makes it really easy to see the data that is gathered and see what you can do with it.

OLI has created an instructor Learning Dashboard that helps instructors take the data and do something with it.  Howver, it is hard for faculty to know what to do with the data. 

I think Canvas makes what they are talking about pretty straightforward, but it is useful to think about how to talk to people about what to do with the data they get.  The cool thing that takes this OLI effort to the next level is they are thinking of integrating this info right into the course, so while you are working in your course, a flag might pop up next to an outcome that students are not meeting, so you as faculty can act in real time to address where students are struggling.