Developing early warning systems to predict students' online learning performance

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 469-478

  Hu, Ya Han ^a   Lo, Chia Lun ^a   Shih, Sheng Pao ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data mining; e Learning; Early warning system; Learning management system; Learning performance prediction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALARM SYSTEMS; DATA MINING; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; DATA-MINING TECHNIQUES; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; TIME-DEPENDENT VARIABLES; UNDERGRADUATE COURSES; LEARNING PORTFOLIO;

E-LEARNING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899842763     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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