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Plenary Lecture

Knowledge Discovery from Databases of Online Courses

Professor Imre J. Rudas
President of Obuda University
Hungary
E-mail: rudas@uni-obuda.hu
Dr. Peter Toth
Principle Director of Trefort Ágoston
Centre for Engineering Education
Obuda University
Hungary
E-mail:
toth.peter@tmpk.uni-obuda.hu

 

Abstract: The web mining is a very effective data mining approach in the internet-based segments of the business world. In fact, it is applying data mining for sophisticated traffic analysis of websites based on the “logfiles” continuously being created on the server machine of the content provider. Its aim is to increase the efficiency of the given websites. These files have to be filtered, transformed, and processed so that valuable pieces of information characterizing the visitors’ behavior and motivation should be gained from it.
Our research group has been composed aiming at revealing advantageous practical application possibilities of web mining for the usage of online courses based on IBM SPSS Clementine and Google Analytics tools. The “user-centered” philosophy of these tools is in perfect harmony with the concepts of modern marketing, ergonomics and pedagogy. This new approach, as opposed to the traditional “page-centered” philosophy, puts the students’ goals and intentions to the center, and designs the services of the system accordingly, as a matter of fact, as we experienced, quite successfully.
Our approach is radically different from the traditional ones, as it is not based upon some “representative sampling” concerning the interaction of the learners and the material, but of the contrary, all interactions of all students can be analyzed at the fine resolution of single keystrokes and mouse clicks.
In our plenary lecture we are going to present the results exposed by quality testing in connection with the students’ learning and collaborative activities, the structure of the syllabus as well as the navigational opportunities.

Brief Biography of the Speakers:Prof. Dr. Imre J. Rudas graduated from Bánki Donát Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971 and received the Master Degree in Mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest while the Ph.D. in Robotics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987. He is active as the President of Obuda University and as a professor of John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics.
Prof. Rudas is a Fellow of IEEE, Administrative Committee member of the Industrial Electronics Society, member of the International Board of the Robotics & Automation Society, Chairman of the joint Hungarian Chapter of these Societies, and RAS and IES Chapter Coordinator of Region 8. He is also a registered expert of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the EU.
He is the President of the Hungarian Fuzzy Association and Steering Committee Member of the Hungarian Robotics Association and the John von Neumann Computer Society.
Prof. Rudas serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, member of editorial board of Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Control Engineering Practice, member of various national and international scientific committees. He is the founder of the IEEE International Conference Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems Prof. Rudas was the General Co-chair of ICAR2001, and also serves as General Chairman and Program Chairman of numerous scientific international conferences.
His present areas of research activity are: Robot Control, Soft Computing, Computed Aided Process Planning, Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Sets. Prof. Rudas has published more than 290 papers in various journals and international conference proceedings.
Dr. habil. Peter Toth is a professor of Trefort Agoston Centre for Engineering Education at Obuda University, Hungary where he is participating in technical initial teacher training and in-service training courses. Currently he is a principle director of the Centre.
He earned his MSc in Engineering Education at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Peter Toth has Ph.D and habil. degree in Educational Research from Eotvos Lorand University.
He plays leading role in planning, development and managing traditional and virtual engineering programs. Dr. Toth is doing research on pedagogy of virtual learning environment, improvement of problem-solving thinking and analyzing of spatial abilities in engineering education. His actual research area is analysis of students’ activities and behavior in virtual learning environment by web mining methods.
He has been contributing in some European researches and projects on pedagogical aspects of e-learning and development of creativity and abilities of future engineers and teachers as well. He is member of Committee for Teacher Training of Hungarian Rectors’ Conference and secretary of Informatics Section of Pedagogical Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. habil. Toth has issued about 75 papers in several journals and conference proceedings.

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