Enhance E-Learning through Data Mining for Personalized Intervention

Lingma Lu Acheson, Xia Ning

2018

Abstract

E-Learning has become an integral part of college education. Due to the lack of face-to-face interactions in online courses, it is difficult to track student involvement and early detecting their performance decline via direct communications as we typically practice in a classroom setting. Hence there is a critical need to significantly improve the learning outcomes of online courses through advanced, non-traditional approaches. University courses are often conducted through a web learning management system, which captures large amount of course data, including students’ online footprints such as quiz scores, logged entries and frequency of log-ins. Patterns discerned from this data can greatly help instructors gain insights over students learning behaviours. This positioning paper argues potential approaches of using Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques to analyse students’ online footprints. Software tools could be created to profile students, identifying those with declining performance, and make corrective recommendations to instructors. This timely and personalized instructor intervention would ultimately improve students’ learning experience and enhance their learning outcome.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Acheson L. and Ning X. (2018). Enhance E-Learning through Data Mining for Personalized Intervention.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-291-2, pages 461-465. DOI: 10.5220/0006793304610465

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu18,
author={Lingma Lu Acheson and Xia Ning},
title={Enhance E-Learning through Data Mining for Personalized Intervention},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2018},
pages={461-465},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006793304610465},
isbn={978-989-758-291-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Enhance E-Learning through Data Mining for Personalized Intervention
SN - 978-989-758-291-2
AU - Acheson L.
AU - Ning X.
PY - 2018
SP - 461
EP - 465
DO - 10.5220/0006793304610465