Web mining for distance education

Author

Ha, Sung Ho ; Bae, Sung Min ; Park, Sang Chan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

715

Abstract

Application of data mining techniques to the WWW (World Wide Web), referred to as Web mining, has been the focus of several research projects and papers. One of several possibilities can be its application to distance education. Taken as a whole, the emerging trends in distance education are facilitating its usability on the Internet. With the explosive growth of information sources available on the WWW, Web mining has become suitable for keeping pace with the trends in education, such as mass customization. In this paper, we define Web mining and present an overview of distance education. We describe the possibilities of application of Web mining to distance education, and, consequently, show that the use of Web mining for educational purposes is of great interest

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; data mining; distance learning; information resources; Internet; Web mining; World Wide Web; data mining; distance education; information sources; mass customization; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Distance learning; Educational programs; Educational technology; Internet; Mass customization; Web mining; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology, 2000. ICMIT 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6652-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2000.916789

Filename

916789