Title :
Distance education: a Web usage mining case study for the evaluation of learning sites
Author :
Machado, Leticia dos Santos ; Becker, Karin
Author_Institution :
Faculdade de Informatica, Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Abstract :
Web Usage Mining (WUM) focus on the interaction behavior between Web users and requested Web pages in order to identify navigation patterns. This work describes a case study aimed at investigating the potential of WUM as a framework for supporting the validation of learning site designs. The goal was to model the domain in terms of a WUM application, and to explore abstractions and types of patterns that can help site usage evaluation.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; computer aided instruction; data mining; distance learning; information retrieval; information use; Web usage mining; Web users; distance education; learning site evaluation; navigation patterns; requested Web pages; Computer aided software engineering; Data mining; Distance learning; Electronic mail; Navigation; Pattern analysis; Statistical distributions; Web page design; Web pages; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2003. Proceedings. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1967-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2003.1215123
