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Academic Research

Evidence-based practice, grounded in empirically tested and established educational philosophies lies at the core of excellence in learning design.

As an educator, you might want to conduct research for various purposes including for assessing efficacy of your program or course design, measurement of impact on your learners’ behaviours, motivations, skills development, performance, engagement, publication in journals and books, presentations at conferences, so on and so forth.

Capture your course data

Export a range of data from your course into CSV format for analysis.

Boost your research output

Turn your course experience with your students into a research paper.

Get your work featured

Research that aligns with our educational philosophy will be featured on OpenLearning.

The OpenLearning platform has been developed ground-up on the social constructivist philosophy of learning. We believe in and promote evidence-based practice in online learning. The technological affordances and ongoing enhancements of the OpenLearning platform are driven by our educational approach, needs of our partners, as well as findings and recommendations from latest research on best practices in online learning.

Online courses enable quantitative research via an enormous amount of engagement data online. It is important to note that use of such data to inform practice or for public sharing is subject to ethics clearance and/or learner consent. Triangulated with qualitative, survey-based data you can gain invaluable insights on your course designs and facilitation.

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OpenLearning Data Available to Export

The OpenLearning platform captures a wide range of learning analytics data that you can use for research.

If you require detailed data, the platform supports xAPI (Tin Can) which can be used to send statements in real time to your Learning Record Store (LRS) for all learner activities. These events can also be captured by other integrations (e.g. Zapier), to provide a data source for automated triggers and data warehousing. In addition the OpenLearning developer API can be used to programmatically retrieve reports and data exports in CSV and JSON formats.

For more information on the data available please contact us.

Student information

Specific data available via CSV :

  • Enrollment date
  • Completion date
  • Student name
  • Student ID
  • Student profile name
  • Course progress
  • Active time
  • Country Number of comments
  • Number of kudos
Student posts (text, image, file)

Specific data available via CSV :

  • Post ID
  • Author Name, Profile, Institution ID
  • Date/time of creation
  • Post Content
  • Post Reflection
  • Activity Page URL
  • Like Count
  • Comments
  • Uploaded files can be exported as files
Student comments

Specific data available via CSV :

  • Comment ID
  • Posted at (timestamp)
  • Posted by
  • Likes
  • Parent comment
  • Comment content
Survey responses

Specific data available via CSV :

  • Likert scale
  • Short answer
  • Paragraph text
  • Multiple choice
  • Checkbox
Widget completion

Specific data available via CSV :

  • Widget name
  • Page name
  • Page URL
  • Widget number on the page
  • % of students completed
Page completion

Specific data available via CSV :

  • Total views
  • % students viewed
  • % students completed
  • Average time spent on the page
Module completion

Specific data available via CSV :

  • Module name ​
  • % of students completed

OpenLearning Survey Guide

The OpenLearning survey guide provides insights and assistance to users of OpenLearning in creating effective surveys that cater to a range of objectives, such as:

Understanding your learners better
Gathering qualitative and quantitative feedback during or at completion of a course to inform continuous improvement practices
Gathering qualitative and quantitative feedback at completion of a course to support marketing and recruitment activities
Undertaking a range of research activities.
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Interested in collaborating with our academic team on research initiatives?

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Research Articles

Engage in evidence-based practice to measure excellence and impact of your courses and programs

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