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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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Imprint from resource description page. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Addresses the impacts of data mining on education and reviews applications in educational research teaching, and learning This book discusses the insights, challenges, issues, expectations, and practical implementation of data mining (DM) within educational mandates. Initial series of chapters offer a general overview of DM, Learning Analytics (LA), and data collection models in the context of educational research, while also defining and discussing data mining's four guiding principles- prediction, clustering, rule association, and outlier detection. The next series of chapters showcase the pedagogical applications of Educational Data Mining (EDM) and feature case studies drawn from Business, Humanities, Health Sciences, Linguistics, and Physical Sciences education that serve to highlight the successes and some of the limitations of data mining research applications in educational settings. The remaining chapters focus exclusively on EDM's emerging role in helping to advance educational research-from identifying at-risk students and closing socioeconomic gaps in achievement to aiding in teacher evaluation and facilitating peer conferencing. This book features contributions from international experts in a variety of fields. - Includes case studies where data mining techniques have been effectively applied to advance teaching and learning -Addresses applications of data mining in educational research, including: social networking and education; policy and legislation in the classroom; and identification of at-risk students -Explores Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to study the effectiveness of online networks in promoting learning and understanding the communication patterns among users and students -Features supplementary resources including a primer on foundational aspects of educational mining and learning analytics Data Mining and Learning Analytics: Applications in Educational Research is written for both scientists in EDM and educators interested in using and integrating DM and LA to improve education and advance educational research. |
| Contents |
TITLE PAGE ; COPYRIGHT PAGE ; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: EDUCATION AT COMPUTATIONAL CROSSROADS; PART I AT THE INTERSECTION OF TWO FIELDS: EDM ; CHAPTER 1 EDUCATIONAL PROCESS MINING: A TUTORIAL AND CASE€STUDY USING MOODLE DATA SETS; 1.1 BACKGROUND; 1.2 DATA DESCRIPTION AND€PREPARATION; 1.2.1 Preprocessing Log Data; 1.2.2 Clustering Approach for€Grouping Log Data; 1.3 WORKING WITH€ProM; 1.3.1 Discovered Models; 1.3.2 Analysis of€the€Models' Performance; 1.4 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEdGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2 ON BIG DATA AND€TEXT MINING IN€THE€HUMANITIES; 2.1 BUSA AND€THE€DIGITAL TEXT2.2 THESAURUS LINGUAE GRAECAE AND€THE€IBYCUS COMPUTER AS€INFRASTRUCTURE; 2.2.1 Complete Data Sets; 2.3 COOKING WITH€STATISTICS; 2.4 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES. |
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CHAPTER 3 FINDING PREDICTORS IN€HIGHER EDUCATION; 3.1 CONTRASTING TRADITIONAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; 3.2 PREDICTORS AND€DATA EXPLORATION; 3.3 DATA MINING APPLICATION: AN€EXAMPLE; 3.4 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4 EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING: A€MOOC EXPERIENCE; 4.1 BIG DATA IN€EDUCATION: THE€COURSE; 4.1.1 Iteration 1: Coursera; 4.1.2 Iteration 2: edX; 4.2 COGNITIVE TUTOR AUTHORING TOOLS; 4.3 BAZAAR; 4.4 WALKTHROUGH4.4.1 Course Content; 4.4.2 Research on€BDEMOOC; 4.5 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES. |
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CHAPTER 5 DATA MINING AND ACTION RESEARCH; 5.1 PROCESS; 5.2 DESIGN METHODOLOGY; 5.3 ANALYSIS AND€INTERPRETATION OF€DATA; 5.3.1 Quantitative Data Analysis and€Interpretation; 5.3.2 Qualitative Data Analysis and€Interpretation; 5.4 CHALLENGES; 5.5 ETHICS; 5.6 ROLE OF€ADMINISTRATION IN€THE€DATA COLLECTION PROCESS; 5.7 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; PART II PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF EDM ; CHAPTER 6 DESIGN OF€AN€ADAPTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM AND€EDUCATIONAL DATA€MINING; 6.1 DIMENSIONALITIES OF€THE€USER MODEL IN€ALS6.2 COLLECTING DATA FOR€ALS; 6.3 DATA MINING IN€ALS; 6.3.1 Data Mining for€User Modeling; 6.3.2 Data Mining for€Knowledge Discovery; 6.4 ALS MODEL AND€FUNCTION ANALYZING; 6.4.1 Introduction of€Module Functions; 6.4.2 Analyzing the€Workflow; 6.5 FUTURE WORKS; 6.6 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES. |
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Education -- Research -- Statistical methods.
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Educational statistics -- Data processing.
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Data mining.
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Data Mining |
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Statistique de l'éducation -- Informatique. |
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Exploration de données (Informatique) |
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Data mining |
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Education -- Research -- Statistical methods |
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Educational statistics -- Data processing |
| Added Author |
ElAtia, Samira, 1973- editor.
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Ipperciel, Donald, 1967- editor.
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Zaïane, Osmar, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Data mining and learning analytics. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2017] 9781118998236 (DLC) 2016016549 (OCoLC)952199814 |
| ISBN |
9781118998212 |
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1118998219 |
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9781118998205 |
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1118998200 |
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9781118998229 |
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1118998227 |
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