Using Multilingual Analytics to Explore the Usage of a Learning Portal in Developing Countries.

Type Journal Article - Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Title Using Multilingual Analytics to Explore the Usage of a Learning Portal in Developing Countries.
Author(s)
Volume 17
Issue 2
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 101-118
URL http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1018309.pdf
Abstract
Learning analytics is a domain that has been constantly evolving throughout recent years due to the
acknowledgement of its importance by those using intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis
models to discover information and social connections for predicting and advising people's learning [1].
Learning analytics may be applied in a variety of different cases, but their role in understanding the
multilingual requirements of users of learning portals is of an outstanding significance. As the adaptation
of existing portals in multilingual environments is a cost- and time-consuming aspect of the development
of a portal, the outcomes of learning analytics may provide the requirements on which further
multilingual services of a portal will be built, ensuring their efficiency. This paper aims to identify and
interpret the behavior of users from developing countries in a multilingual learning portal using the log
files of the portal by applying the methodology defined in a previous work by Stoitsis et al. [2] The paper
also aims to identify the aspects that should be studied by future related works by focusing on specific
regions and countries that exhibit special interest for further adaptation of the portal to additional
multilingual environments.

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