期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering
印刷版ISSN：2320-9798
电子版ISSN：2320-9801
出版年度：2014
卷号：2
期号：12
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Educational data mining and learning analytics are used to research and build models in several areasthat can influence learning systems. Higher education institutions are beginning to use analytics for improving theservices they provide and for increasing student grades and retention. With analytics and data mining experiments ineducation starting to proliferate, sorting out fact from fiction and identifying research possibilities and practicalapplications are not easy. This issue brief is intended to help policymakers and administrators understand how analyticsand data mining have been—and can be—applied for educational improvement. At present, educational data miningtends to focus on developing new tools for discovering patterns in data. These patterns are generally about the microconcepts involved in learning, learning analytics.
关键词：Data mining; Big data; Educational data mining; learning; Learning analytics
