Mining log data for the analysis of learners' behaviour in web-based learning management systems

Operational Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-200

  Psaromiligkos, Yannis ^a   Orfanidou, Maria ^a   Kytagias, Christos ^a   Zafiri, Evmorfia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Educational data mining; Learners' behaviour; Learning management systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958817224     PISSN: 11092858     EISSN: 18661505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-008-0032-4     Document Type: Article

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