Abstract:

This proposal is a work-in-progress report about analyzing existing online course data and drawing specific conclusions for designing online courses in general. The topic of the observed online course is media education in teacher education. The web-based course was held now for four years (two times a year) with an average of 284 participants each time. It is hosted in an open-source learning management system and consists of six learning modules, one test per module, and an online task related to one of the six existing learning modules.

The course was designed and supervised according to a design-based research approach. The conception of the course will be analyzed with existing data. The data set consists of anonymized log files about using the online course and data gained in a questionnaire for each pass.

The main idea of the data analysis is to gain information about designing online courses. The main results will be some guidelines for creating a newer version of the course, which might be applicable for online courses in general.

Keywords:

Design based research, distance learning, design.