Do you want to know how your e-learning is performing? Then regularly analyze your e-learning data and keep track of the learning progress of your course participants. We will show you which data is important for this and what it signifies!

As a course creator, you probably invested a lot of time and effort into creating your e-learning – after all, you want your learning content to resonate well with your participants. Therefore, today we will provide you with an overview of the most important data of your e-learning and explain what it means. This way, you can find out how well your content is resonating and where improvement potentials are hidden! But a critical look at your e-learning data has additional benefits:

That’s why you should analyze your e-learning data

1. Insights into your own e-learning offering:

Have you ever wondered: Where can I still improve my online course? This question is not easy to answer, as it is often difficult to recognize one’s own improvement potentials. Therefore, you should evaluate the success of your online course based on objective data. This way, you can make informed decisions based on your data!

2. Insights into the usage of your learning media:

Which media do you use most often: image, video, audio, or the traditional text? The choice of your learning media also influences the success of your online course! Hence, align your media choice with the preferences of your participants and support them in achieving their learning goals.

3. Be successful in the long term:

Do you want the time you invested in creating your online course to pay off in the long run? Then regularly analyze your course data and adjust your e-learning accordingly. If your offering aligns with the learning preferences of your participants, you will hit the nail on the head!

You see: There are good reasons why you should take a closer look at your online course data. But what data plays a role in the analysis, and what do they mean for your learning content? To answer this question, we have put together a catalog of questions that will help you analyze your data even more easily!

Your e-learning catalog of questions – These data should be analyzed!

The following questions will help you optimize your e-learning further and adapt it to the learning preferences of your course participants!

Learning Material

• Which media type is the most popular?
  Check which media types (text, image, video, audio) you frequently use in your online course and how popular they are. From this, you can derive which content you should use more often, as it resonates particularly well with your course participants and makes learning easy!

• Are your learning contents more often downloaded or viewed?
  This question reveals whether your participants want to learn exclusively on your platform or also wish to save learning materials on their own computer. If this is the case, you should consider a learning library. The learning library is an online course where you can store all important learning contents centrally in one place. Here, your participants can get an overview and easily download content.

Interaction with the Course

• How often do your participants visit the platform?
  Do you want to increase the number of active users on your platform? Then inspire your participants with particularly exciting/practical content! This way, you make your e-learning especially versatile and stand out from other e-learning experts.

  Info: Learn now how to tell an exciting story in your online course: Gamification in the Online Course: The Success Story of “Reach The Top”

• Which features are particularly popular?
  Conduct a survey among your participants! Based on the feedback, you can adjust your online courses and make them more popular. On the blink.it platform, for example, you can incorporate quizzes, surveys, or exams to make the learning experience even more interactive.

• What are the learning preferences of your participants?
  Do your participants prefer to learn alone or engage in discussion with others (social learning)? Depending on the answer, you should adjust your course and, for example, encourage your participants to upload their own content.

  Info: Want to learn how to link knowledge sustainably? In the blog, we present the Think-Read-Talk-Do model: How does learning work with the TRTD model?

Learning Success

• How long does it take your participants to complete the online course?
  If your participants are taking too long, you should first ask yourself:
  Are my course contents too demanding?
  Is my online course too long (too many learning contents)?
  Do my participants receive regular reminders to continue with the course?
  Should I present my content differently (e.g., in the form of videos or graphics)?

• Exam: What percentage of the answers are correct?
  Based on the exams, you can analyze which contents of your online course are particularly easily/quickly internalized and which topics need additional explanation. You can respond to this by making your content easier to understand or offering additional personal meetings in a blended-learning format!

  Info: Want to analyze the performance of your online course? With the statistics tool, this is very easy to do: Measure learning success with blink.it: The Statistics Tool

The catalog of questions makes it clear: If you regularly analyze your e-learning data, you can increase the success of your online course! Only through a critical look at your learning contents can you recognize improvement potentials and adjust your course accordingly. The catalog of questions helps you to analyze your online course objectively and interpret the data accordingly. This way, your course participants can achieve their learning goals even more easily!

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