Many researchers have focused on the mining of educational data stored in databases of educational software and Learning Management Systems. The goal is the knowledge discovery that can help educators to support their students by managing effectively educational units, redesigning student’s activities and finally improving the learning outcome. A basic data mining technique concerns the discove...

Predicting academic success is essential in higher education because it perceived as a critical driver for scientific and technological advancement countries’ economic social development. This paper aims to retrieve the most relevant attributes by applying educational data mining (EDM) techniques Portuguese business school bachelor’s historical data. We propose two predictive models classify ea...

The effort of using web usage mining methods in the area of educational data mining is to reveal the knowledge hidden in the log files of the web and database servers of contemporary virtual learning environments. By applying data mining methods to these data, interesting patterns concerning the students’ behavior can be identified. These methods help us to find the most effective structure of ...

This paper reports on results of applying process discovery mining and sequence classification mining techniques to a data set of semi-structured learning activities. The main research objective is to advance educational data mining to model and support self-regulated learning in heterogeneous environments of learning content, activities, and social networks. As an example of our current resear...

A program of study can be viewed as a knowledge graph consisting of learning units and relationships between them. Such a knowledge graph provides the core data structure for organizing and navigating learning experiences. We address two issues in this talk. First, given a knowledge graph, how can we use data mining to identify and correct deficiencies in a knowledge graph. Second, how can we u...

Data mining has wide and diverse applications. In this paper we attempt to examine data mining from an educational perspective. Inquiry learning is an educational approach most commonly used by educational practitioners. Based on technologies of knowledge discovery from data mining, we present a practical approach of an inquiry learning model that aids efficient learning. The approach may be us...