Monitoring student progress using virtual appliances: a case study
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2012
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Romero Zaldivar, V.A.
Pardo, A.
Burgos, D.
Delgado Kloos, C.
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Computers & Education, 2012; 58(4):1058-1067
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The interactions that students have with each other, with the instructors, and with educational resources are valuable indicators of the effectiveness of a learning experience. The increasing use of information and communication technology allows these interactions to be recorded so that analytic or mining techniques are used to gain a deeper understanding of the learning process and propose improvements. But with the increasing variety of tools being used, monitoring student progress is becoming a challenge. The paper answers two questions. The first one is how feasible is to monitor the learning activities occurring in a student personal workspace. The second is how to use the recorded data for the prediction of student achievement in a course. To address these research questions, the paper presents the use of virtual appliances, a fully functional computer simulated over a regular one and configured with all the required tools needed in a learning experience. Students carry out activities in this environment in which a monitoring scheme has been previously configured. A case study is presented in which a comprehensive set of observations were collected. The data is shown to have significant correlation with student academic achievement thus validating the approach to be used as a prediction mechanism. Finally a prediction model is presented based on those observations with the highest correlation.
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Link to a related website: https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/bitstream/10016/19207/1/monitoring_pardo_kloos_CE_2012_ps.pdf, Open Access via Unpaywall
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Copyright 2012 Elsevier