Educational Data Mining Review: Teaching Enhancement

In today’s era, educational data mining is a discipline of high importance for teaching enhancement. EDM techniques can reveal useful information to educators to help them design or modify the structure of courses. EDM techniques majorly include machine learning and data mining techniques. In this chapter of the book, we will deliberate upon various data mining techniques that will help in identifying at-risk students, identifying priority learning needs for different groups of students, increasing graduation rates, effectively assessing institutional performance, maximizing campus resources, optimizing subject curriculum renewal. Various applications of data mining are also discussed by quoting example of various case studies. Analysis of social networks in educational field to understand student network formation in classrooms and the types of impact these networks have on student is also discussed.

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