RT Journal Article
T1 e-LION: Data integration semantic model to enhance predictive analytics in e-Learning
A1 Paneque, Manuel
A1 Roldán-García, María del Mar
A1 García-Nieto, José Manuel
K1 Análisis de datos
AB In the last years, Learning Management systems (LMSs) are acquiring great importance in online education, since they offer flexible integration platforms for organising a vast amount of learning resources, as well as for establishing effective communication channels between teachers and learners, at any direction. These online platforms are then attracting an increasing number of users that continuously access, download/upload resources and interact each other during their teaching/learning processes, which is even accelerating by the breakout of COVID-19. In this context, academic institutions are generating large volumes of learning-related data that can be analysed for supporting teachers in lesson, course or faculty degree planning, as well as administrations in university strategic level. However, managing such amount of data, usually coming from multiple heterogeneous sources and with attributes sometimes reflecting semantic inconsistencies, constitutes an emerging challenge, so they require common definition and integration schemes to easily fuse them, with the aim of efficiently feeding machine learning models. In this regard, semantic web technologies arise as a useful framework for the semantic integration of multi-source e-learning data, allowing the consolidation, linkage and advanced querying in a systematic way. With this motivation, the e-LION (e-Learning Integration ONtology) semantic model is proposed for the first time in this work to operate as data consolidation approach of different e-learning knowledge-bases hence leading to enrich on-top analysis. For demonstration purposes, the proposed ontological model is populated with real-world private and public data sources from different LMSs referring university courses of the Software Engineering degree of the University of Malaga (Spain) and the Open University Learning. [...]
PB Elsevier
YR 2022
FD 2022-09-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26285
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26285
LA spa
NO Paneque, M., Roldán-García, M. del Mar , & García-Nieto, J. (2023). e-LION: Data integration semantic model to enhance predictive analytics in e-Learning. Expert Systems with Applications, 213, 118892.
NO This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain via Grant PID2020-112540RB-C41 (AEI/FEDER, UE) and Andalusian PAIDI program, Spain with grant P18-RT-2799. It has been developed in the context of PIE-17-166: Advanced Analysis of Students in Virtual Campus, and we specially thank to Carlos Romero and Rafael Gutierrez from the Virtual Campus Service of the University of Malaga for their technical support and data availability. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga /CBUA.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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