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Almost all higher educational institutions use Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) for the delivery of educational content to the students. Those systems collect information about student behaviour, and university can take advantage of analysing such data to model and predict student outcomes. Our work aims at discovering whether there exists a direct connection between the intensity of VLE behaviour represented as recorded student activities and their study outcomes and analyse how intense this connection is. For that purpose, we employed the clustering method to divide students into so-called VLE intensity groups and compared formed groups (clusters) with the student outcomes in the course. Our analysis has been performed using Open University Learning Analytics dataset (OULAD).
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This work was supported by junior research project no. GJ18-04150Y and student research grant no. SGS19/209/OHK3/3T/37.
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Kuzilek, J., Vaclavek, J., Zdrahal, Z., Fuglik, V. (2019). Analysing Student VLE Behaviour Intensity and Performance. In: Scheffel, M., Broisin, J., Pammer-Schindler, V., Ioannou, A., Schneider, J. (eds) Transforming Learning with Meaningful Technologies. EC-TEL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29736-7_45
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