[BLANK_AUDIO]. It's important after undertaking any new learning and teaching strategy to know whether it's working or not. >> This video will provide some suggestions on how you might go about evaluating your own online initiatives. Just like assessment it's important to think of evaluation as not something you do at the end of the learning process, but something that you do throughout. >> It's equally as important to consider evaluation from multiple angles or perspectives, such as your own self reflection, peer feedback, student feedback or a theory. Will explore how you can use these angles in your own practice to evaluate any teaching that you do online. >> We'll explore how you can use these angles in practice to evaluate your own online initiatives. Self reflection. Did your teaching strategy achieve the outcome you are expecting? Is there something you would change next time to improve your practice? Would you recommend your approach to a colleague? Was the technology appropriate? Peer feedback. Have a colleague look at your redesign, activity, resource or assessment. What feedback do they offer? Student feedback. Obtain feedback from your students. This can be in various ways. A short survey, part way through the learning process, to inform any changes to your course. Or, you could also conduct focus groups, to obtain some deeper and richer feedback, that could inform your course design next time. Theory and scholarship. Explore the literature and educational technology, to learn about how others have approached, not only evaluating their online strategy, but how the reported outcomes relate, to your own, experience. While the four angles provide a holistic way of evaluating your online initiative, they're primarily relying on self reported data or your own reflection. >> Online technologies allow the possibility of exploring objective data from students actual interaction with the technology. >> Much the same way that a gas company can track energy consumption in different cities so that they can improve their infrastructure, some online learning technologies that we use, capture data about a student's online activity. >> If you can have access to this type of data you can start evaluating your online initiative using the objective data. >> Analyzing this behavioral data from your students learning informs your teaching and it's called learning analytics. >> The Society of Learning Analytics and Knowledge defines learning analytics as the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their context for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. >> Many new versions of learning management systems such as Moodle, Blackboard or Desire to Learn, now provide you with the ability to visualize and report your own students' online behavior. Many open technologies also have these features, such as YouTube, twitter, and Google. >> This can help you know whether you need to intervene and assist certain students, modify your learning and teaching strategy, or whether your design is effective. >> Explore the online technologies available at your institution to see if there are any available learning [UNKNOWN] or reporting functionality. That you can use to assist you with your evaluation. >> Hopefully we've given you some ideas about how to go about evaluating your own online initiative. Think about the strategies introduced in this video when evaluating the effectiveness of your own teaching.