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Association Rule Mining and Collaborative Filtering-Based Recommendation for Improving University Graduate Attributes

  • Sheta, Osama E.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.339-345
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    • 2022
  • Outcome-based education (OBE) is a tried-and-true teaching technique based on a set of predetermined goals. Program Educational Objectives (PEOs), Program Outcomes (POs), and Course Outcomes (COs) are the components of OBE. At the end of each year, the Program Outcomes are evaluated, and faculty members can submit many recommended measures which dependent on the relationship between the program outcomes and its courses outcomes to improve the quality of program and hence the overall educational program. When a vast number of courses are considered, bad actions may be proposed, resulting in unwanted and incorrect decisions. In this paper, a recommender system, using collaborative filtering and association rules algorithms, is proposed for predicting the best relationship between the program outcomes and its courses in order to improve the attributes of the graduates. First, a parallel algorithm is used for Collaborative Filtering on Data Model, which is designed to increase the efficiency of processing big data. Then, a parallel similar learning outcomes discovery method based on matrix correlation is proposed by mining association rules. As a case study, the proposed recommender system is applied to the Computer Information Systems program, College of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Al-Baha University, Saudi Arabia for helping Program Quality Administration improving the quality of program outcomes. The obtained results revealed that the suggested recommender system provides more actions for boosting Graduate Attributes quality.

Analyzing Learners Behavior and Resources Effectiveness in a Distance Learning Course: A Case Study of the Hellenic Open University

  • Alachiotis, Nikolaos S.;Stavropoulos, Elias C.;Verykios, Vassilios S.
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.6-20
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    • 2019
  • Learning analytics, or educational data mining, is an emerging field that applies data mining methods and tools for the exploitation of data coming from educational environments. Learning management systems, like Moodle, offer large amounts of data concerning students' activity, performance, behavior, and interaction with their peers and their tutors. The analysis of these data can be elaborated to make decisions that will assist stakeholders (students, faculty, and administration) to elevate the learning process in higher education. In this work, the power of Excel is exploited to analyze data in Moodle, utilizing an e-learning course developed for enhancing the information computer technology skills of school teachers in primary and secondary education in Greece. Moodle log files are appropriately manipulated in order to trace daily and weekly activity of the learners concerning distribution of access to resources, forum participation, and quizzes and assignments submission. Learners' activity was visualized for every hour of the day and for every day of the week. The visualization of access to every activity or resource during the course is also obtained. In this fashion teachers can schedule online synchronous lectures or discussions more effectively in order to maximize the learners' participation. Results depict the interest of learners for each structural component, their dedication to the course, their participation in the fora, and how it affects the submission of quizzes and assignments. Instructional designers may take advice and redesign the course according to the popularity of the educational material and learners' dedication. Moreover, the final grade of the learners is predicted according to their previous grades using multiple linear regression and sensitivity analysis. These outcomes can be suitably exploited in order for instructors to improve the design of their courses, faculty to alter their educational methodology, and administration to make decisions that will improve the educational services provided.

Data Mining Technology for Efficient Information Application (교육에서의 효율적인 정보 활용을 위한 데이터 마이닝 기법)

  • Lee, Chul-Hwan;Han, Sun-Gwan
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.75-85
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of the paper is to apply a Data Mining method to Data Base System for more efficient educational data used in elementary and secondary education. First, this study investigated the whole contents of Data Mining and technique relation to Machine Learning. Mainly Data Base Systems in education are general life checking, record of health, and score reports. We suggested Data Mining method and Machine Learning when we search for information of usefulness in a particular representational form or a set of such representations in data. Also, we propose the problem and the solution when using data mining techniques in education.

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Inclusive Policies and Distribution of Green Economic Transformation of Mining Areas: A Regional Development Perspective

  • Rismawati;Rahmad Solling HAMID;Mukhlis LUBIS
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: This study examines the impact of inclusive policies and green transformation on regional development of mining areas. Research design, data and methodology: We designed and utilized a structured questionnaire to collect data from a population of 300 individuals. The questionnaire was disseminated through Google Forms and consisted of five questions for each research variable. A total of 210 respondents completed the questionnaire, yielding a response rate of 70%. The sample was diverse in terms of gender and educational level Of the 210 respondents, 113 were female (53.8%) and 97 were male (46.2%). In terms of educational background, the sample was composed as follows: 13 individuals with a Doctorate degree (6.2%), 56 with a Master's degree (26.7%), 97 with a Bachelor's degree (46.2%), 22 with a Diploma (10.5%), and 22 with a High School education (10.5%). Results: The research outcomes highlight the significant influence of inclusive policies on driving the Distribution of green economic transformation. Emphasizing the pivotal role of inclusive distribution strategies, especially within the context of mining areas, the study sheds light on their crucial contribution to fostering regional development. Conclusion: These findings hold valuable implications for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and academics promoting environmentally conscious economic transformations.

Analysis of Factors for Private Universities Educational Restitution Rate using Data Mining : Focusing on the Panel Fixed Effect Model and Non-parametric Regression Estimation (데이터 마이닝을 활용한 사립대학 교육비 환원요인 분석 : 패널 고정효과모형과 비모수회귀추정을 중심으로)

  • Chae, Dong Woo;Lee, Mun-Bum;Jung, Kun-Oh
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.153-170
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    • 2020
  • The Educational Restitution Rate is an important parameter that determines the quality of university education. This paper analyzed data from 148 private universities over the 10 years from 2009 to 2018 using data mining techniques in Korea. A significant causal relationship is detected in the fixed effect model as a result of the panel estimation. And the scale of faculty expansion and fund management, which are the university evaluation indicators, and the size of basic funds, respectively, have a positive effect on the ERR, which is within the confidence interval. In the analysis, the more private universities improve the tuition dependence rate, the more decisively positive affecting ERR. As a result of nonparametric regression estimation, when the faculty expansion ratio is reinforced, the effect of economies of scale is detected in some sections, the improvement of the tuition dependence rate, and the result value is generated through the improvement that results are derived at a certain point in time. We hope that the university based on this study can be a basic Indicators for the diagnosis of basic competencies and policy of student-centered education.

Data Mining Approach to Clinical Decision Support System for Hypertension Management (고혈압관리를 위한 의사지원결정시스템의 데이터마이닝 접근)

  • 김태수;채영문;조승연;윤진희;김도마
    • Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.203-212
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    • 2002
  • This study examined the predictive power of data mining algorithms by comparing the performance of logistic regression and decision tree algorithm, called CHAID (Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection), On the contrary to the previous studies, decision tree performed better than logistic regression. We have also developed a CDSS (Clinical Decision Support System) with three modules (doctor, nurse, and patient) based on data warehouse architecture. Data warehouse collects and integrates relevant information from various databases from hospital information system (HIS ). This system can help improve decision making capability of doctors and improve accessibility of educational material for patients.

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Analysis of Online Behavior and Prediction of Learning Performance in Blended Learning Environments

  • JO, Il-Hyun;PARK, Yeonjeong;KIM, Jeonghyun;SONG, Jongwoo
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.71-88
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    • 2014
  • A variety of studies to predict students' performance have been conducted since educational data such as web-log files traced from Learning Management System (LMS) are increasingly used to analyze students' learning behaviors. However, it is still challenging to predict students' learning achievement in blended learning environment where online and offline learning are combined. In higher education, diverse cases of blended learning can be formed from simple use of LMS for administrative purposes to full usages of functions in LMS for online distance learning class. As a result, a generalized model to predict students' academic success does not fulfill diverse cases of blended learning. This study compares two blended learning classes with each prediction model. The first blended class which involves online discussion-based learning revealed a linear regression model, which explained 70% of the variance in total score through six variables including total log-in time, log-in frequencies, log-in regularities, visits on boards, visits on repositories, and the number of postings. However, the second case, a lecture-based class providing regular basis online lecture notes in Moodle show weaker results from the same linear regression model mainly due to non-linearity of variables. To investigate the non-linear relations between online activities and total score, RF (Random Forest) was utilized. The results indicate that there are different set of important variables for the two distinctive types of blended learning cases. Results suggest that the prediction models and data-mining technique should be based on the considerations of diverse pedagogical characteristics of blended learning classes.

A Study on Learner Modeling Technology and Applications for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (지능형 교육 시스템을 위한 학습자 모델 기술과 응용 연구)

  • Yoon, Taebok;Lee, Jee-Hyong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.6455-6460
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    • 2013
  • Learner modeling forms the foundations for intelligent tutoring systems that provide adaptive and active learning guidance for learning and education quality enhancement. The aim of this study was to develop learner modeling technologies to form the foundation of intelligent tutoring systems. Specific research tasks include learner modeling building techniques, diverse learner state diagnosis methods and educational data mining.

Learning process mining techniques based on open education platforms (개방형 e-Learning 플랫폼 기반 학습 프로세스 마이닝 기술)

  • Kim, Hyun-ah
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.375-380
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we study learning process mining and analytic technology based on open education platform. A study on mining through personal learning history log data based on an open education platform such as MOOC which is growing in interest recently. This technology is to design and implement a learning process mining framework for discovering and analyzing meaningful learning processes and knowledge from learning history log data. Learning process mining framework technology is a technique for expressing, extracting, analyzing and visualizing the learning process to provide learners with improved learning processes and educational services.

Big data text mining analysis to identify non-face-to-face education problems (비대면 교육 문제점 파악을 위한 빅데이터 텍스트 마이닝 분석)

  • Park, Sung Jae;Hwang, Ug-Sun
    • Korean Educational Research Journal
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.1-27
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    • 2022
  • As the COVID-19 virus became prevalent worldwide, non-face-to-face contact was implemented in various ways, and the education system also began to draw much attention due to rapid non-face-to-face contact. The purpose of this study is to analyze the direction of non-face-to-face education in line with the continuously changing educational environment to date. In this study, data were visualized using Textom and Ucinet6 analysis tool programs to collect social network big data with various opinions. As a result of the study, keywords related to "COVID-19" were dominant, and keywords with high frequency such as "article" and "news" existed. As a result of the analysis, various issues related to non-face-to-face education, such as network failures and security issues, were identified. After the analysis, the direction of the non-face-to-face education system was studied according to the growth of the education market and changes in the educational environment. In addition, there is a need to strengthen security and feedback on teaching methods in non-face-to-face education analyzed using big data.