| Great questions and comments. I will try to comment on as much as possible. 1. I guess this is what we hope we can find a solution for with Eduflow. Pure self-led learning is not very motivating to most. Learning together with others is a great source of motivation, but this often ends up resulting in endless Zoom calls. So we try to balance this by allowing async social things. Examples of this could be peer reviews or something simpler like discussion activities. We also support setting things up like matching people in groups, and then having groups meet regularly, basically studying together. 2. I think it depends too much on the specific course. Generally the completion rate can be extremely high because there is an external pressure to complete. If you are going through corporate onboarding or taking a university course with a grade, then you are quite likely to complete all activities. In end, we are not in charge of the actual course designs, just the tool that enables instructors to deliver it. So we see everything from 1% to 100% completion rates. 3. We are currently running a course called Instructional Design Principles for Course Creation (https://www.eduflow.com/academy/instructional-design-princip...) on Eduflow. This is going well, and I think the places where we could improve is probably more about the actual content of the course (it was a bit too intensive for some learners). Before building Eduflow I taught data science with peer review (using Peergrade), and that was a pretty good success! 4. We are actually working on adding a bunch of dashboards to Eduflow right now. It is not just something instructors are asking for - it is also one of the most popular requests from larger customers. We offer an API already (https://docs.eduflow.com/) which gives access to data in Eduflow and manipulation. We also support Zapier which is pretty popular, especially for smaller customers. Hope this is somewhat useful, otherwise you can just let me know and I will try to elaborate :). |
You are using social accountability, be it online or in-person (office setting), to improve the completion rate. I am sure they have worked well for the clients you work with. Here are the few ways I have tried for corporate clients and have seen the completion rate increase in most cases
1. The candidate has to pay a high entry fee (for example USD 1000) and whatever percentage of the course they complete beyond the minimum 60%, they get that percentage of their fee refunded. So if someone finishes the entire course, the course is free for him and if someone does only half or less of the course they pay the full fee. The client then donates the money on the candidate's behalf to a partner NGO.
2. Another is a reward at every level. I don't have enough evidence to say these words, as I tried only once.
3. Course completion is tied to performance metrics but it has to be done with care because the goal is learning rather than a certificate.
4. Displaying % completed for the entire cohort (which can have side effects but is a good motivation device and can contribute towards social accountability.
I did these experiments by combining different tools but my case isn't representative of anything in the industry. So I must repeat take everything I say with a kilo of salt.