In e-learning environments that use the collaboration strategy, providing participants with a
set of communication services may not be enough to ensure collaborative learning. It is thus …

Collaborative learning incorporates a social component in distance education to minimize
the disadvantages of studying in solitude. Frequent analysis of student interactions is …

Data mining methods are successful in educational environments to discover new
knowledge or learner skills or features. Unfortunately, they have not been used in depth with …

Effective collaboration between student peers is not spontaneous. A system that can
measure collaboration in real-time may be useful, as it could alert an instructor to pairs that …

This book, Innovative Trends in Personalized Software Engineering and Information
Systems–The Case of Intelligent and Adaptive E-learning Systems, studies the development …

Modeling user behavior (user modeling) via data mining faces a critical unresolved issue:
how to build a collaboration model based on frequent analysis of students in order to …

In order to support collaboration in web‐based learning, there is a need for an intelligent
support that facilitates its management during the design, development, and analysis of the …

When students are responsible for their own collaborative learning process, they need
information on collaboration to manage the process. We note that collaborative …

In e-learning settings, the evaluation of different alternatives regarding learning paths'
proposal is nowadays crucial, due to the great attention devoted to the construction of …

Currently, there is an increasing interest in educational data mining. E-learning systems
have become pervasive in educational contexts, and they are more necessary than ever in …