Mining students' behavior in web-based learning programs

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3459-3464

  Lee, Man Wai ^a   Chen, Sherry Y ^a   Chrysostomou, Kyriacos ^a   Liu, Xiaohui ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive styles; Data mining; Field dependence; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

COGNITIVE STYLES; FIELD DEPENDENCE; FIELD INDEPENDENTS; STUDENTS' BEHAVIORS; TRADITIONAL COMPUTERS; WEB BASED LEARNING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 56349170169     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.02.054     Document Type: Article

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