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Publication Date: 2021-Jan
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Toward Precision Education: Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics for Identifying Students' Learning Patterns with Ebook Systems
Yang, Christopher C. Y.; Chen, Irene Y. L.; Ogata, Hiroaki
Educational Technology & Society, v24 n1 p152-163 Jan 2021
Precision education is now recognized as a new challenge of applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and learning analytics to improve both learning performance and teaching quality. To promote precision education, digital learning platforms have been widely used to collect educational records of students' behavior, performance, and other types of interaction. On the other hand, the increasing volume of students' learning behavioral data in virtual learning environments provides opportunities for mining data on these students' learning patterns. Accordingly, identifying students' online learning patterns on various digital learning platforms has drawn the interest of the learning analytics and educational data mining research communities. In this study, the authors applied data analytics methods to examine the learning patterns of students using an ebook system for one semester in an undergraduate course. The authors used a clustering approach to identify subgroups of students with different learning patterns. Several subgroups were identified, and the students' learning patterns in each subgroup were determined accordingly. In addition, the association between these students' learning patterns and their learning outcomes from the course was investigated. The findings of this study provide educators opportunities to predict students' learning outcomes by analyzing their online learning behaviors and providing timely intervention for improving their learning experience, which achieves one of the goals of learning analytics as part of precision education.
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Materials, Books, Electronic Learning, Learning Strategies, Behavior Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Accounting
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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