Title :
Study of student access to online course material using HTTP traffic analysis
Author :
Man, Kein-Hong ; Tan, Su-Wei ; Lee, Sheng-Chyan ; Logeswaran, Rajasvaran
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Abstract :
Analysis of HTTP traffic through server logs is able to provide information about student behaviour to complement survey results for Web-based courses. A number of scripts were written to extract information from the logs, including hit counts and session counts. Different representations of summary results are shown. The captured user behaviour information is compared to student evaluation data, and the difference between the two sets of the data is discussed. Merits and limitations of this study are also discussed
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational courses; telecommunication traffic; HTTP traffic analysis; Web-based courses; captured user behaviour information; hit counts; online course material; representations; scripts; server logs; session counts; student access; student evaluation data; summary results; Data mining; Databases; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Feedback; Information analysis; Monitoring; Roads; Traffic control; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON 2000. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6355-8
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.2000.888747
