Designing a System for Collecting and Analyzing Behavior Data of Instructors and Students in Blended Courses

Abstract

With increasingly extensive use of blended courses in universities, it has become a popular field of research to study how to collect and analyze behavior data of instructors and students in blended courses and to ultimately enhance learning. This study focuses on both online and classroom teaching and learning behaviors. Teaching and learning behaviors in classroom are analyzed using improved Flanders Interaction Analysis System. Online teaching and learning behaviors are analyzed using learning analysis models based on learning management systems. According to the analysis results, we propose the overall structure of a system that collects and analyzes behavior data of instructors and students in blended courses, design main functions of two subsystems that respectively collect online and classroom behavior data of instructors and students, and carried out a preliminary test on data collecting and analyzing functions of the system with a graduate course as example.