A Methodology for Mining Data from Computer-Supported Learning Environments

Computer-supported learning environments are usually adopted as platforms for distance-based education, but are also used as supporting tools for face-to-face educational settings. However, in such situations educators lose contact with their students and the way they access and use the content made...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Ricarte, Ivan Luiz Marques, Falci Junior, Geraldo Ramos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Informática na Educação: teoria & prática
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/13396
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/InfEducTeoriaPratica/article/view/13396
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Data Mining
Web Mining
Feedback
E-Learning
Learning Environment Evaluation
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Sumario:Computer-supported learning environments are usually adopted as platforms for distance-based education, but are also used as supporting tools for face-to-face educational settings. However, in such situations educators lose contact with their students and the way they access and use the content made available to them. This paper presents a methodology to process data collected from server logs and from the environments internal databases to provide feedback to authors and tutors about the content they offer. Two clustering algorithms, K-means and Self-Organizing Maps, were used to analyze the collected users’ interaction data and thus establish patterns of content access. An evaluation was performed with data collected from an actual environment used at a Brazilian university.