Project Page: ULearning
The Graduate School of Life Sciences deploys ULearning as a digital learning environment for its online and blended education. Teachers want to be able to monitor student progress during a course and respond accordingly to prevent dropout. In addition, upon completion of a course, teachers want insight into the use of learning activities to optimize course design.
This includes questions such as:
- What learning activities contribute to effective and efficient course design?
- What learning activities activate students?
- Is there value in offering multiple forms of learning activities side by side?
A proof of concept was conducted to see whether meaningful data could be extracted from ULearning to inform teachers. A test environment was set up within the ULearning platform. An overview was created of the types of activities/student data that could be extracted.
So far, the result of the proof of concept was that the generated list of data are not very insightful nor user-friendly. In a follow up project, we intend to investigate
- multiple visualizations/dashboards to explore questions and hypotheses about monitoring student progress and optimize course design
- explore what aspects of learning teachers would like to monitor, and investigate whether LA can be a potential solution
- relate student data from ULearning and combine it with data from other sources such as the result for a course registered in Osiris.
Contact person and email address
Lars van der Plank, l.o.vanderplank@umcutrecht.nl (Technology Enhanced Learning, UMC Utrecht)
Anne-Petra Rozendal, a.p.rozendal@umcutrecht.nl (Graduate School of Life Sciences, UMC Utrecht)
Do you offer opportunities for student internships or research on this project? Not yet
Website with further information: https://www.uu.nl/en/education/graduate-school-of-life-sciences