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Tracking Usage of Online Course Materials with Google Analytics

Tracking Usage of Online Course Materials with Google Analytics. Jeffery S. Thomas Asst. Teaching Professor Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering.

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Tracking Usage of Online Course Materials with Google Analytics

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  1. Tracking Usage of Online Course Materials with Google Analytics Jeffery S. Thomas Asst. Teaching Professor Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering

  2. Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners, and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. - George Siemens

  3. Potential of Academic Analytics • student success • effective practice • scholarship of teaching and learning • authoring of resources Concerns About Academic Analytics • evaluation of teaching effectiveness • additional expectations • clarifying responsibility • creating independent learners Academic Analytics by J. P. Campbell and D. G. Oblinger, Educause, 2007.

  4. Challenges

  5. Goals • Maintain sanity as teaching load increased. • Be more efficient while maintaining quality. • Obtain more data in order to improve quality. Shift focus from inside classroom to outside Classroom setting Delivery method Assessment methods

  6. Changes in Setting larrycuban.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/large_lecture-hall.jpg

  7. Changes in Delivery

  8. Concept Videos Demonstration Videos

  9. Problem Comparison Videos Problem Solution Images and Videos

  10. Experiment Videos

  11. Video Usage

  12. home

  13. Changes in Assessment

  14. 1837 Short Questions • 220 Categories • 132 Enabling Objectives • 12 Terminal Objectives • 360 Questions Processed into Multiple Choice • 3875 Variations

  15. Google Analytics

  16. Questions? Acknowledgements Missouri S&T Educational Technology groupeFellows Program

  17. GA and Engineering Chin, R. A. 2011. Measuring the Performance of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal. Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. Vancouver, British Columbia. Hess, M., A. Kaw and C. Owens. 2009. On Evaluating and Rating Online Resources for a Numerical Methods Course, Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. Austin, TX. Thomas, J. S., R. H. Hall, T. A. Philpot and D. R. Carroll. 2011. The Effect of On-Line Videos on Learner Outcomes in a Mechanics of Materials Course. Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. Vancouver, British Columbia.

  18. Comparison of Analytics Frameworks and Models Learning Analytics: Definitions, Processes and Potential by T. Elias, 2011.

  19. http://web.mst.edu/~jthomas/ http://classes.mst.edu/ide110/ http://classes.mst.edu/ide110/grades/index.html http://classes.mst.edu/ide110/grades/topics.html https://www.google.com/analytics/settings/home?scid=16841458

  20. Office Studio (under development)

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