Using data mining on student behavior and cognitive style data for improving e-learning systems: A case study

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 597-610

  Jovanovic, Milos ^a   Vukicevic, Milan ^a   Milovanovic, Milos ^a   Minovic, Miroslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

classification; clustering; educational data mining; Moodle; performance; prediction; students

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; BUILDING PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CLUSTER MODELS; CLUSTERING; COGNITIVE STYLES; DATA MINING ALGORITHM; DATA PREPROCESSING; E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; E-LEARNING SYSTEMS; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; EVALUATION MEASURES; LEARNING MATERIALS; LEARNING STYLE; MOODLE; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; STUDENT BEHAVIOR;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); E-LEARNING; FORECASTING; STUDENTS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84862177782     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2012.696923     Document Type: Article

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