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Download full textSafa Ridha Albo Abdullah; Ahmed Al-Azawei – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
This systematic review sheds light on the role of ontologies in predicting achievement among online learners, in order to promote their academic success. In particular, it looks at the available literature on predicting online learners' performance through ontological machine-learning techniques and, using a systematic approach, identifies the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academic Achievement, Grade Prediction, Data Analysis
van den Beemt, Antoine; Buys, Joos; van der Aalst, Wil – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The increasing use of digital systems to support learning leads to a growth in data regarding both learning processes and related contexts. Learning Analytics offers critical insights from these data, through an innovative combination of tools and techniques. In this paper, we explore students' activities in a MOOC from the perspective of personal…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Academic Achievement
Rienties, Bart; Herodotou, Christothea; Olney, Tom; Schencks, Mat; Boroowa, Avi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The importance of teachers in online learning is widely acknowledged to effectively support and stimulate learners. With the increasing availability of learning analytics data, online teachers might be able to use learning analytics dashboards to facilitate learners with different learning needs. However, deployment of learning analytics…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration, Online Courses, Data Analysis
Fynn, Angelo – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The prediction and classification of student performance has always been a central concern within higher education institutions. It is therefore natural for higher education institutions to harvest and analyse student data to inform decisions on education provision in resource constrained South African environments. One of the drivers for the use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Data Collection
Jung, Eulho; Bauer, Christine; Heaps, Allan – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The high cost of tuition and textbooks can have a negative impact on potential students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Open Educational Resources (OER) offers students a way to save educational costs while utilizing high-quality open textbooks. Up until now, there have been few studies focused on a specific provider of open textbooks. This…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Textbooks, Shared Resources and Services
Prinsloo, Paul; Archer, Elizabeth; Barnes, Glen; Chetty, Yuraisha; van Zyl, Dion – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
In the context of the hype, promise and perils of Big Data and the currently dominant paradigm of data-driven decision-making, it is important to critically engage with the potential of Big Data for higher education. We do not question the potential of Big Data, but we do raise a number of issues, and present a number of theses to be seriously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Open Universities, Online Courses
