Exploring the Usage of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Methodology in e-Learning

摘要

Intelligent data mining and knowledge discovery methodology aims to extract useful information and discover some hidden patterns from huge amount of databases, which statistical approaches cannot discover. It is a multidisciplinary field of research includes: machine learning, databases, statistics, visualization, high performance computing, and knowledge engineering. Intelligent data mining techniques are very efficient tools towards the analysis of the data of student activities and behaviour which accumulated by learning management systems. This paper discusses some of the data mining techniques from the e-learning prospective. The benefits of usage clustering, classification, association rules mining, sequential pattern mining, and text mining techniques in e-Learning tasks are discussed as well.