Applying Web Usage Mining to an Educational Digital Library Service

This case study in educational data mining (EDM) describes the motivation, methods, results, and best practices used while studying the usage data from users of a web-based tool, the Instructional Architect (IA.usu.edu). Our focus is twofold: (a) to highlight lessons learned for those new to data mining and (b) to introduce the analysis techniques of latent class modeling as an analysis tool. The context for this work is the field of educational digital libraries (EDL) and teacher use of Internet technologies (especially online learning resources) in the classroom.