Diseño e implementación de un módulo de Moodle para la aplicación de Minería de Datos Educacionales para la Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The educational data mining can be executed from a database that hasnumerous records and exist inside an environment of education and learning. Its purpose is that, from this obtained information and applying different techniques of data mining, extract profitable details to develop new ways of teaching. This process permits to establish parameters and predictions that could be easily interpreted by the teachers, in order to take actions according to the results obtained from this valuable educational information. Nevertheless, in this first stage there will be applied the selection, extraction, analysis and transformation of the information obtained of the logs of the educat ional platform Moodle. To acquire the proposed end, a module will be created for the accomplishment of the before mentioned phases. So, that both teachers and students could take a record of the evaluation offered to both routes, providing that these take part in the same virtual classroom.