Visualising student tracking data to support instructors in web-based distance education

Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference on Alternate Track, Papers and Posters, WWW Alt. 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 154-161

  Mazza, Riccardo ^a   Dimitrova, Vania ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Student tracking; Web based distance education

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DISTANCE EDUCATION; EDUCATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; VISUALIZATION; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COGNITIVE ASPECTS; COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DISTANCE COURSE; DISTANCE LEARNERS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; STUDENT TRACKING; WEB-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84870921968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1013367.1013393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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