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50 Years of ERIC
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Hershkovitz, Arnon; Nachmias, Rafi – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
This research consists of an empirical study of online persistence in Web-supported courses in higher education, using Data Mining techniques. Log files of 58 Moodle websites accompanying Tel Aviv University courses were drawn, recording the activity of 1189 students in 1897 course enrollments during the academic year 2008/9, and were analyzed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Persistence, Internet, Data Processing
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Cohen, Anat; Nachmias, Rafi – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
This paper focuses on a Web-log based tool for evaluating pedagogical processes occurring in Web-supported academic instruction and students' attitudes. The tool consists of computational measures which demonstrate what instructors and policy makers can learn about Web-supported instruction through Web-usage mining. The tool can provide different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Outcomes of Education
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Hershkovitz, Arnon; Azran, Ronit; Hardof-Jaffe, Sharon; Nachmias, Rafi – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
This study presents an empirical investigation of online hierarchical repositories of items presented to university students in Web-supported course websites, using Web mining methods. To this end, data from 1747 courses were collected, and the use of online repositories of content items in these courses was examined. At a later stage, courses…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Course Content, Web Based Instruction
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Cohen, Anat; Nachmias, Rafi – Internet and Higher Education, 2006
This paper describes a quantitative cost effectiveness model for Web-supported academic instruction. The model was designed for Web-supported instruction (rather than distance learning only) characterizing most of the traditional higher education institutions. It is based on empirical data (Web logs) of students' and instructors' usage…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education
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Nachmias, Rafi; Segev, Limor – Internet and Higher Education, 2003
This study uses a computer log is to evaluate now online content is consumed and to identify individual differences among students in terms of content usage and the amount of content presented in Web-supported course sites. Findings show the amount of content accessed is very high, but large differences exist among students. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Instructional Design
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Nachmias, Rafi – Internet and Higher Education, 2002
Discussion of the use of the Internet as an instructional tool in higher education focuses on a three-level research framework for the study of campus-wide academic instruction using the Web. Describes how the framework was used for a project at Tel-Aviv University to integrate the Internet into traditional instruction. (Contains 56 references.)…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Internet