Early and dynamic student achievement prediction in E-learning courses using neural networks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 372-380

  Lykourentzou, Ioanna ^a   Giannoukos, Ioannis ^a   Mpardis, George ^a   Nikolopoulos, Vassilis ^a   Loumos, Vassili ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STUDENTS;

ACCURATE PREDICTIONS; EDUCATIONAL SERVICES; INPUT DATUM; NEURAL-NETWORK; PREDICTION METHODS; STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS; VIRTUAL GROUPS;

TEACHING;

EID: 60549093397     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20970     Document Type: Article

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