Learning Analytics of Online Instructional Design during COVID-19: Experience from Teaching Data Analytics Course

Emergency remote online learning is a natural response by education providers to ensure program sustainability whilst educators and students adapt to this change through time. The instructional design of these courses has also been adapted but limited learning analytics-based studies are available. This paper presents a case study on the instructional design and learning analytics in an online learning course entitled Data Analytics conducted at Telkom University. The course content, activity and assessment structure are discussed as well as the data analytics tools functions provided in the learning management platform used. Additional learning analytics case study is reported which focused on the student’s response and experience. It is found that students had a good experience learning online despite in a course that requires high group collaboration and psychomotor skills. The analytics also identified strong positive correlation between frequency of access to the learning platform with the learner’s performance.