Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 28, No 2: November 2022

Using data mining techniques to extract students' attitudes toward e-learning

Nabeel Zuhair Tawfeeq (University of Mosul)
Omar Ghanim Ghazal (University of Mosul)
Wisam Saeed Abed (University of Mosul)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Nov 2022

Abstract

The rapid expansion of e-learning platforms, where students can share their opinions and express their thoughts, has become a rich source of data for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. This study aims to develop an effective model for predicting students' attitudes about e-learning, with a focus on mining opinions that indicate positive or negative sentiments. The study was implemented in two stages. The first stage aimed to discover the most popular platform used in e-learning at the University of Mosul to collect the largest amount of data through comments posted within the platforms, also to identify trends in students' opinions towards e-learning. The results show that the focus of both lecturers and students revolved around well-known platforms such as Google Classroom and Google Meet, both of which had relative importance (45.33% and 42.29%, respectively). The second stage uses a machine-learning algorithm on the data collected to determine the impact of e-learning on students. Also, two feature selection approaches, Information Gain IG and CHI statistics, were explored and enhanced in addition to HMM and SVM-based hybrid learning strategy. As a result, an opinion mining method was used to assist developers in improving and promoting the quality of relevant services.

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