Traditionally, the quality of a course offering is measured based on learner feedback at the end of the offering. This chapter offers a method to measure the quality of a course offering-continually, formatively, and summatively-using factors such as the quality of resources used, learner motivation, learner capacity, learner competency growth, and instructor competence. These factors are represented in a Bayesian belief network (BBN) in a system called MI-IDEM. MI-IDEM receives streams of data corresponding to these factors as and when they become available, which leads to estimates of quality of the course offering based on individual factors as well as an overall quality of the offering. Continuous, formative, and summative course quality measurements are imperative to identify weaknesses in the learning process of students and to assist them when they need help.
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