Educational data mining (EDM) has emerged as an influential discipline that utilises sophisticated algorithms and machine learning techniques to translate complex educational data into practical ...

Educational data mining is catching federal attention, too. The National Science Foundation this month opened a new $30 million grant for studying cyberlearning that is intended in part to expand ...

Zacharoula Papamitsiou*, Anastasios A. Economides, Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining in Practice: A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Evidence, Educational Technology & Society, ...

Educational data mining can also provide real-time performance-based assessments, reports, and alerts for teachers to use during whole-class instruction or to help individual students.

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, ... Data mining algorithm selection: decision trees. Jan. 27, 2003.

Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics over 700 Years. ... This is a nontrivial step requiring a machine-learning algorithm to spot and correct errors or omissions.

So far, the Education Department has not commented on data-mining used in Google Apps for Education. Others argue that FERPA is simply outdated, and that it doesn’t address the type of data ...