Monitoring, supporting, and engaging students based on the evidence generated by digital technologies

Subunit 2.1.1. introduced a set of questions that are important to think about when analysing data on learners’ engagement and learning progress. In this section, we will provide questions related to the teaching materials.

Teachers need to ask themselves relevant questions on what resources are most commonly used, what resources are considered less interesting and what resources students consult on their own initiative (fig. 1). Since learning analytics offer a lot of information on how students approach the learning materials it is important for a teacher to know what kind of questions he/she seeks to answer.

Figure 1. Set of questions to obtain evidence about learning materials and resources (Van den Bogaard et al., 2016, p. 8)