Modeling students' activity in online discussion forums: A strategy based on time series and agglomerative hierarchical clustering

EDM 2011 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 253-257

  Cobo, G ^a   Garcia, D ^a   Santamaria, E ^a   Moran, J A ^a   Melenchon, J ^a   Monzo, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering; Clustering educational data; Data mining; Modeling students activity; Online discussion forums

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PROFILE; AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; BEHAVIOR PATTERNS; CLUSTERING EDUCATIONAL DATA; DENDROGRAMS; DISCUSSION BOARDS; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; TEACHING-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; TIMES SERIES;

DATA MINING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TIME SERIES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857498785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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