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Cristobal Romero, Sebastian Ventura, Mykola Pechenizkiy and Ryan S.J.d. Baker, «Handbook of academic information Mining» . guide of academic information Mining (EDM) offers an intensive evaluate of the present nation of data during this zone. the 1st a part of the e-book comprises 9 surveys and tutorials at the critical info mining innovations which have been utilized in schooling. the second one half provides a collection of 25 case stories that provide a wealthy evaluate of the issues that EDM has addressed.

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GISMO is described in detail in Mazza and Milani [9] and Mazza and Botturi [11]. 12 A graph reporting an overview of students’ accesses to resources of the course. 5╇ Conclusions Online educational systems collect a vast amount of information that is valuable for analyzing students’ behavior. However, due to the vast amount of data these systems generate, it is very difficult to manage manually [13]. In the last few years, researchers have begun to investigate various methods to extract valuable information from this huge amount of data that might be helpful to instructors to manage their courses.

4 Cognitive Amplification.......................................................................................... 3 Design Principles.................................................................................................................. 1 Spatial Clarity............................................................................................................ 2 Graphical Excellence................................................................................................. 4 Visualizations in Educational Software............................................................................

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