Educational analytics of an opencourseware

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2018-01-01

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Balbay, Seher

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Analytics as one of the recent fields in technology-based learning offers many benefits to educators, instructors, and administrators to improve the efficiency and quality of alternative educational materials, and learning experience through tracking and storing students’ log data on web platforms over an extended period of time. This mixed-method study investigates students’ log data retrieved from the opencourseware (OCW) specifically launched for a required academic English speaking skills course offered at Middle East Technical University in Turkey with the aim of enhancing the quality and efficiency of the materials available for the course. By understanding the reasons behind students’ behaviors via the interviews conducted with 50 students on this online courseware, this study also aims to provide useful practical hints to the instructors and guide them to act on future decisions. The analyzed data is based on learner behavior with a specific emphasis on average view duration, likes and dislikes, and comments. This study can serve as a starting point to guide and provide the instructors and administrators about the future of the aforementioned course which is also offered in a rotational hybrid learning format where the effectiveness of online materials gain even more importance.

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http://iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/456
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/73618

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International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET)

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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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S. Balbay, “Educational analytics of an opencourseware,” International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET), pp. 673–685, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/456.