Learning About the Online Learner

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LearningAbout theOnline Learner

• Arnon Hershkovitz
• Knowledge Technology Lab
• School of Education,
• Tel Aviv University, Isarel
• Dissertation in progress
• Supervised by Prof. Rafi Nachmias

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Usage Mining of Online Learning

• in e-commerce the goal is to increase sales
  and profit and it is achieved by understanding
  customer access behaviour, and in e-learning the
  goal might be to improve the learning and it
  could be also achieved by understanding learners
  access patterns
• (Zaïane , 2001)

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Educational Research in KTL

• The Ants Model three levels of course hierarchy
• (Sasson Nachmias , 1999)

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Educational Research in KTL (Cont.)
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Mining Emotional Situation

• Main question of my PhD research is it possible
  to infer the learners emotional situation during
  the online learning, from his usage patterns?
• (Hershkovitz, doctoral dissertation in progress)
• 3-axis learners behavior
• Usage (what does he do?)
• Emotions (what does he feel?)
• Cognitive (what does he learn?)

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ULG - The Learning ECG

• ULG Usagelearnogram

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Main Challenges (Partial List)

• Gathering qualitative knowledge. what was done
  until now? quantitative information about
• the whole group of learners
• the individual learner, treating the whole
  learning as one session
• No online-learning model exists
• Pondering ethical issues

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Thank You...

• References
• Hershkovitz, A. Doctoral dissertation, in
  progress.
• Sasson, E., Nachmias, R. (1999). What makes
  them click how learners utilize Web based
  courses. Proceedings of World Conference on
  Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
  Telecommunications 1999, 1614-1615.
• Zaïane, O. R. (2001). Web usage mining for a
  better Web-based learning environment. Paper
  Presented in Conference on Advanced Technology
  for Education, Banff, Canada.