Course analysis and refinement

Operating a Teachpoint course is an ongoing process. Teachpoint provides analytical tools that let you pinpoint and fix your course's problem areas. The process is roughly as follows:

1. Develop the initial course.
2. Release the course, and run it long enough to get statistically significant usage data.
3. Use the Teachpoint course analytical tools to locate the points where students are getting stuck or dropping out.
4. The analysis may reveal that material is missing from your course, in which case you can add new concepts and lessons. Or a lesson may be generally ineffective, in which case you can upgrade it. Teachpoint lets you supply several alternative lessons at a particular point in the course, so that you directly compare them.
5. Return to step 2, and continue this process until your course has reached an acceptable level of effectiveness.

Currently, Teachpoint allows a course to be modified only through one "account"; i.e. it assumes that the course is controlled by a single organization or individual. The idea of "open source" courses in which alternative content can be supplied by mutually unknown authors is appealing, but would require a richer protection system.

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