A statistics tool to get quantitative and qualitative data in order to improve teaching in the University of Lleida

Abstract

Comunicació presentada a la V Conferencia Internacional sobre Multimedia y Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en Educación (m-ICTE’2009). Lisboa, 22 – 24 d’abril de 2009.

This document contains a short summary about a research which is done in the Unit of Virtual Teaching of the Educational Science Institute in the University of Lleida (UdL). The study consists in the creation of an applicative from the data base of virtual campus of our university (Sakai) and it is also complementary with the statistics tool which already exists inside this platform. The tool lets us obtain data and statistic of each subject about the different spaces in the virtual campus (syllabus, contents, activities, mail, forum, schedule and advertisements ). We complement these results with pedagogical and qualitative advices; the objective is to offer improvement and innovation ideas to university teachers. Finally we show the teachers’ opinions about the utility of the information which is offered in the report about their subjects.