Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Innovation and Technology, 2000. ICMIT 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6652-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMIT.2000.916789
