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Learning about Online Learning Processes and Students' Motivation through Web Usage Mining
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, , Tel Aviv University, Israel

IJELLO Volume 5, Number 1, ISSN 1552-2237 Publisher: Informing Science Institute

Abstract

This study illustrates the potential of applying Web usage mining - the analysis of Web log files - in educational research. It consists of two sub-studies and focuses on two types of analysis, both related to the whole learning process: investigating one learner's activity in order to learn about her or his learning process, and examining the activity of a large group of learners, in order to develop a log-based motivation measure. Subjects were 674 adults who used an online learning unit as part of their preparations for the Psychometric Academic Entrance Exam and whose log files were drawn. The first sub-study aimed to illustrate the knowledge about the online learner that can be extracted from log files, and this resulted in a list of computable, non computable, and higher-level learning variables. In the second sub-study, a log-based motivation measuring tool was developed on the basis of a theoretical framework, a mechanism for computing relevant learning variables, and a clustering of these variables into three groups (associated with the theo- retical framework). A discussion of the results, in the context of educational Web mining, is provided.

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Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2009). Learning about Online Learning Processes and Students' Motivation through Web Usage Mining. Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 5(1), 197-214. Informing Science Institute. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .

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