8/20/2019 Factors of Online Course Design That Promote Student Engagement (286674583)

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Factors of Online Course Design that PromoteDionne Nicole Curbeam, Ed.D.

Director of Instructional Technology | Coppin State University (Baltimore, MD) | dcurbeam@co

Overview

Blackboard© Analytics for Learn was used to identify online courses

taught during academic year 2014-2015. Courses classified as

internships, independent study, clinical, field study, or used a third-party

learning platform were removed from the study. From the remaining

number, twenty courses were selected: ten with the highest and ten with

the lowest levels of student minutes spent in the course.

Courses from each group were qualitatively compared to determinesimilarities with respect to select course design elements:

course announcements, number of assessments, types of

assessments, Blackboard tool usage, and course

calendar.

Defining Student Engagement ….

in the Online Learning Environment

Course Accesses

 Accesses are recorded when a student logs onto Blackboard Learn and

clicks on the link to the specific Blackboard Learn course. They may not

have completed any activities or accessed any content.

Interactions

Interactions are recorded whenever a student completes an action in

the Blackboard Learn site (e.g. opens a folder, downloads a document,

etc.). Interactions can be thought of as the number of clicks in the

Blackboard course.

Minutes

Minutes are calculated from when the student accesses the Blackboard

Learn course until they log out or access another Blackboard Learn

course.

Submissions

Submissions are recorded when a student submits something to the

Blackboard Learn course using a Blackboard tool (e.g., Blackboard

 Assignment, Test, Discussion Board item, etc.).

Course Analytics

Highest Student Engagem ent, Sorted by Average Minutes 

Course Subject Course Designer  Avg.

Interactions

Avg.

Minutes

CSU4211 History Publisher 1,045.40 4,080.60

CSU4212 Nursing Faculty 1,331.10 3,737.70

CSU4213Health Information

Management Faculty 1,515.00 3,584.00

CSU4214 Nursing Faculty 1,331.50 3,444.90

CSU4215 English Faculty 981.9 3,213.70

CSU4216Health Information

ManagementFaculty 1,417.50 3,162.90

CSU4217 Physical Science Publisher 1,207.50 3,117.60

CSU4218 Psychology Faculty 793.4 3,059.80

CSU4219 Nursing Faculty 1,140.30 3,033.80

CSU4220Business

ManagementPublisher 918.6 3,026.20

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Lowest Studen t Engagement, Sorted by Average Minutes 

Course Subject C ourse Designer  Avg.

Interactions

Avg.

Minutes

CSU4404  Accounting Publisher 133.5 349.3

CSU4405 History Faculty 192.1 339.2

CSU4406 History Faculty 216.9 338

CSU4407 Political Science Faculty 96.8 334

CSU4410 History Faculty 261.4 262

CSU4411 History Faculty 169.4 232.1

CSU4412 History Faculty 185 231

CSU4413 Counseling Faculty 133.8 213.7

CSU4415  Accounting Publisher 26 124.1

CSU4416 Political Science Faculty 52.3 116.2

CSU4418 Criminal Justice Faculty 69.5 90.7