An XML approach to student usage reflection in online courses

Author

Chow, K.O. ; Chan, Alan Y K ; Cheung, K.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong City Univ., China

fYear

2004

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

339

Lastpage

344

Abstract

Online course is common in the education scene. Students use online course for a variety of reasons. However, their usage, as recapped in log, is worthy of further investigation. This article proposes an XML Web log data model to represent Web server log files in online courses. The implementation of the XML Web log data model and how it is used to reflect student usage are discussed. Using XML and its related technologies such as XSLT to represent and process log data is a flexible and extensible method to visualize and compare student usage. Student would be able to recap and compare his/her usage with others and improve in using the online courses.

Keywords

Internet; XML; computer aided instruction; data handling; data mining; data models; educational courses; Web server log files; XML Web log data model; data visualisation; log files representation; online courses; student usage log; Computer science; Computer science education; Continuing education; Data models; File servers; Least squares approximation; Reflection; Uniform resource locators; Web server; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology, 2004. CIT '04. The Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2216-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2004.1357218

Filename

1357218