Data Analytics in e-Learning: Approaches and Applications
Data Analytics in e-Learning: Approaches and Applications

Author: Marian Cristian Mihăescu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-22

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 3030966445

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This book focuses on research and development aspects of building data analytics workflows that address various challenges of e-learning applications. This book represents a guideline for building a data analysis workflow from scratch. Each chapter presents a step of the entire workflow, starting from an available dataset and continuing with building interpretable models, enhancing models, and tackling aspects of evaluating engagement and usability. The related work shows that many papers have focused on machine learning usage and advancement within e-learning systems. However, limited discussions have been found on presenting a detailed complete roadmap from the raw dataset up to the engagement and usability issues. Practical examples and guidelines are provided for designing and implementing new algorithms that address specific problems or functionalities. This roadmap represents a potential resource for various advances of researchers and practitioners in educational data mining and learning analytics.

Computational Learning Approaches to Data Analytics in Biomedical Applications
Computational Learning Approaches to Data Analytics in Biomedical Applications

Author: Khalid Al-Jabery

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0128144831

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Computational Learning Approaches to Data Analytics in Biomedical Applications provides a unified framework for biomedical data analysis using varied machine learning and statistical techniques. It presents insights on biomedical data processing, innovative clustering algorithms and techniques, and connections between statistical analysis and clustering. The book introduces and discusses the major problems relating to data analytics, provides a review of influential and state-of-the-art learning algorithms for biomedical applications, reviews cluster validity indices and how to select the appropriate index, and includes an overview of statistical methods that can be applied to increase confidence in the clustering framework and analysis of the results obtained. - Includes an overview of data analytics in biomedical applications and current challenges - Updates on the latest research in supervised learning algorithms and applications, clustering algorithms and cluster validation indices - Provides complete coverage of computational and statistical analysis tools for biomedical data analysis - Presents hands-on training on the use of Python libraries, MATLAB® tools, WEKA, SAP-HANA and R/Bioconductor

Data Analytics Applications in Education
Data Analytics Applications in Education

Author: Jan Vanthienen

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1498769284

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The abundance of data and the rise of new quantitative and statistical techniques have created a promising area: data analytics. This combination of a culture of data-driven decision making and techniques to include domain knowledge allows organizations to exploit big data analytics in their evaluation and decision processes. Also, in education and learning, big data analytics is being used to enhance the learning process, to evaluate efficiency, to improve feedback, and to enrich the learning experience. As every step a student takes in the online world can be traced, analyzed, and used, there are plenty of opportunities to improve the learning process of students. First, data analytics techniques can be used to enhance the student’ s learning process by providing real-time feedback, or by enriching the learning experience. Second, data analytics can be used to support the instructor or teacher. Using data analytics, the instructor can better trace, and take targeted actions to improve, the learning process of the student. Third, there are possibilities in using data analytics to measure the performance of instructors. Finally, for policy makers, it is often unclear how schools use their available resources to "produce" outcomes. By combining structured and unstructured data from various sources, data analytics might provide a solution for governments that aim to monitor the performance of schools more closely. Data analytics in education should not be the domain of a single discipline. Economists should discuss the possibilities, issues, and normative questions with a multidisciplinary team of pedagogists, philosophers, computer scientists, and sociologists. By bringing together various disciplines, a more comprehensive answer can be formulated to the challenges ahead. This book starts this discussion by highlighting some economic perspectives on the use of data analytics in education. The book begins a rich, multidisciplinary discussion that may make data analytics in education seem as natural as a teacher in front of a classroom.

Learning Analytics: Fundaments, Applications, and Trends
Learning Analytics: Fundaments, Applications, and Trends

Author: Alejandro Peña-Ayala

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 3319529773

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This book provides a conceptual and empirical perspective on learning analytics, its goal being to disseminate the core concepts, research, and outcomes of this emergent field. Divided into nine chapters, it offers reviews oriented on selected topics, recent advances, and innovative applications. It presents the broad learning analytics landscape and in-depth studies on higher education, adaptive assessment, teaching and learning. In addition, it discusses valuable approaches to coping with personalization and huge data, as well as conceptual topics and specialized applications that have shaped the current state of the art. By identifying fundamentals, highlighting applications, and pointing out current trends, the book offers an essential overview of learning analytics to enhance learning achievement in diverse educational settings. As such, it represents a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in updating their knowledge and finding inspirations for their future work.

Data Mining and Learning Analytics
Data Mining and Learning Analytics

Author: Samira ElAtia

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1118998219

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Addresses the impacts of data mining on education and reviews applications in educational research teaching, and learning This book discusses the insights, challenges, issues, expectations, and practical implementation of data mining (DM) within educational mandates. Initial series of chapters offer a general overview of DM, Learning Analytics (LA), and data collection models in the context of educational research, while also defining and discussing data mining’s four guiding principles— prediction, clustering, rule association, and outlier detection. The next series of chapters showcase the pedagogical applications of Educational Data Mining (EDM) and feature case studies drawn from Business, Humanities, Health Sciences, Linguistics, and Physical Sciences education that serve to highlight the successes and some of the limitations of data mining research applications in educational settings. The remaining chapters focus exclusively on EDM’s emerging role in helping to advance educational research—from identifying at-risk students and closing socioeconomic gaps in achievement to aiding in teacher evaluation and facilitating peer conferencing. This book features contributions from international experts in a variety of fields. Includes case studies where data mining techniques have been effectively applied to advance teaching and learning Addresses applications of data mining in educational research, including: social networking and education; policy and legislation in the classroom; and identification of at-risk students Explores Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to study the effectiveness of online networks in promoting learning and understanding the communication patterns among users and students Features supplementary resources including a primer on foundational aspects of educational mining and learning analytics Data Mining and Learning Analytics: Applications in Educational Research is written for both scientists in EDM and educators interested in using and integrating DM and LA to improve education and advance educational research.

1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge
1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

Author: George Siemens

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02-27

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781450310574

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1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge Feb 27, 2011-Mar 01, 2011 Banff, Canada. You can view more information about this proceeding and all of ACM�s other published conference proceedings from the ACM Digital Library: http://www.acm.org/dl.

Innovative Learning Analytics for Evaluating Instruction
Innovative Learning Analytics for Evaluating Instruction

Author: Theodore W. Frick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-19

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1000454770

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Innovative Learning Analytics for Evaluating Instruction covers the application of a forward-thinking research methodology that uses big data to evaluate the effectiveness of online instruction. Analysis of Patterns in Time (APT) is a practical analytic approach that finds meaningful patterns in massive data sets, capturing temporal maps of students’ learning journeys by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Offering conceptual and research overviews, design principles, historical examples, and more, this book demonstrates how APT can yield strong, easily generalizable empirical evidence through big data; help students succeed in their learning journeys; and document the extraordinary effectiveness of First Principles of Instruction. It is an ideal resource for faculty and professionals in instructional design, learning engineering, online learning, program evaluation, and research methods.

Challenges and Applications of Data Analytics in Social Perspectives
Challenges and Applications of Data Analytics in Social Perspectives

Author: Sathiyamoorthi, V.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-12-04

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 179982568X

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With exponentially increasing amounts of data accumulating in real-time, there is no reason why one should not turn data into a competitive advantage. While machine learning, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, has made great strides, it has not been able to surpass a number of challenges that still prevail in the way of better success. Such limitations as the lack of better methods, deeper understanding of problems, and advanced tools are hindering progress. Challenges and Applications of Data Analytics in Social Perspectives provides innovative insights into the prevailing challenges in data analytics and its application on social media and focuses on various machine learning and deep learning techniques in improving practice and research. The content within this publication examines topics that include collaborative filtering, data visualization, and edge computing. It provides research ideal for data scientists, data analysts, IT specialists, website designers, e-commerce professionals, government officials, software engineers, social media analysts, industry professionals, academicians, researchers, and students.

Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and Gamification
Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and Gamification

Author: Santi Caballé

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0128036672

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Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and Gamification: An ICT Education discusses the challenges associated with assessing student progress given the explosion of e-learning environments, such as MOOCs and online courses that incorporate activities such as design and modeling. This book shows educators how to effectively garner intelligent data from online educational environments that combine assessment and gamification. This data, when used effectively, can have a positive impact on learning environments and be used for building learner profiles, community building, and as a tactic to create a collaborative team. Using numerous illustrative examples and theoretical and practical results, leading international experts discuss application of automatic techniques for e-assessment of learning activities, methods to collect, analyze, and correctly visualize learning data in educational environments, applications, benefits and challenges of using gamification techniques in academic contexts, and solutions and strategies for increasing student participation and performance. - Discusses application of automatic techniques for e-assessment of learning activities - Presents strategies to provide immediate and useful feedback on students' activities - Provides methods to collect, analyze, and correctly visualize learning data in educational environments - Explains the applications, benefits, and challenges of using gamification techniques in academic contexts - Offers solutions to increase students' participation and performance while lowering drop-out rates and retention levels

Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics, second edition
Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics, second edition

Author: John D. Kelleher

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 853

ISBN-13: 0262361108

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The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theory and practice. Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models are used in predictive data analytics applications including price prediction, risk assessment, predicting customer behavior, and document classification. This introductory textbook offers a detailed and focused treatment of the most important machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications. Technical and mathematical material is augmented with explanatory worked examples, and case studies illustrate the application of these models in the broader business context. This second edition covers recent developments in machine learning, especially in a new chapter on deep learning, and two new chapters that go beyond predictive analytics to cover unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.