Authors:
Vasile Paul Bresfelean
;
Nicolae Ghisoiu
;
Ramona Lacurezeanu
;
Mirela Pop
;
Miranda Vlad
and
Ovidiu Veres
Affiliation:
Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Romania
Keyword(s):
Decisions, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Data Mining.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Assessment and Accreditation of Courses and Institutions
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Quality Assurance
;
Social Context and Learning Environments
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Project Management
;
Standards and Interoperability
;
Ubiquitous Learning
Abstract:
In order to achieve quality in education there is a need to optimally combine a complex of factors for the education system to be developed to highest standards. Competitiveness of higher education institutions is closely related to the development of information technologies, as key factor for future European citizens, to beneficiate from The European Higher Education Area and the collaboration in education. Data mining thus appears as one of the opportunities that have been less exploited, but whose application increases steadily, to solve various problems by analyzing data already present in the databases of various institutions. One of the viable solutions to support decision makers may possibly be the decisions support systems (DSS) which integrate specific tools to assist decision together with those of general use to form a constituent part of the institutions’ information system. In this paper the authors present the design of a DSS which integrates data mining technologies,
with the purpose to assist the managers of higher education institutions in quality decision-making processes.
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