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WEB MINING AND THE EDUCATIONAL DOMAIN

Abstract

The Web nowadays is a firmly established (virtual) reality that offers unprecedented opportunities to education. Many modes of delivery of online learning exist (e.g. educational software, virtual courses, blended learning, electronic books), all providing accessibility to learning materials, facilitating communication among learners and tutors/peers, and possibly helping to improve the learning and teaching process. While using an online learning environment, learners leave continuous hidden traces of their activity in the form of log file records, which document every action taken by three parameters: what was the action taken, who took it and when. The primary objective Web mining techniques is to use these log files, in order to portray the characteristics of the learner's learning processes in online environments illustrated by the portions given in this document. In this paper we have elaborated the use of web mining in various aspects of educational system.

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