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Plenary
Lecture
Web Mining – An Effective Method in Course Development
and Learning Management
Abstract: The development of e-Learning, the use of
Learning Management System and Learning Content
Management System are becoming more and more dominant in
engineering education, especially since "caned"
solutions are easy to "configure" for desired purposes.
However, the quality issue is only a second criterion in
development process, making content and conventional
teaching strategies to be the main issue. The two main
criterion is "content and form" – the precise pedagogic
aims, didactic structure and suitably tailored
environment. Apart from these, we should also evaluate
the customs of accessing the system and course pages of
users, both tutors and learners. Thus we obtain some
usability indicators by usage of web mining methods in
order to recognize and understand the users' activities
and behavior, to identify learning strategies and
problems in virtual learning environment. By this
approach the web mining method accommodates organically
to a development model of virtual learning environment.
This presentation shows such indicators and their
relationship to the efficiency and the effectiveness of
virtual courses.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Imre J. Rudas graduated from Banki Donat
Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971 and received the Master
Degree in Mathematics from the Eotvos Lorand 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 280 papers in various journals and
international conference proceedings.
Dr. Peter Toth Peter is Professor of 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 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 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. Toth has issued about 60 papers in several journals
and conference proceedings.
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