Distance education: a Web usage mining case study for the evaluation of learning sites

摘要

Web Usage Mining (WUM) focus on the interaction behavior between Web users and requested Web pages in order to identify navigation patterns. This work describes a case study aimed at investigating the potential of WUM as a framework for supporting the validation of learning site designs. The goal was to model the domain in terms of a WUM application, and to explore abstractions and types of patterns that can help site usage evaluation.