Process Mining in Learning Analytics: Annotated Bibliography Analysis

This annotated bibliography examines the application of process mining in learning analytics, focusing on its benefits and challenges. The student analyzes four research papers: Koedinger et al. (2015), Liñán and Pérez (2015), Maseleno et al. (2018), and Bolt et al. (2015). The bibliography includes detailed summaries of each paper, methods used to locate the papers, reasons for selection, peer-review status, author expertise, and contributions to the overall research topic. Key themes include educational data mining, the evolution of learning analytics, the development of integrated platforms, and the use of process cubes. The analysis highlights the value of process mining in understanding student behavior and improving learning outcomes. The student reflects on the similarities, differences, and implications of each paper, concluding that the selected papers collectively offer valuable insights into the implementation of process mining techniques in educational settings and data mining.

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Topic: Process mining in learning analytics - benefits and challenges
Koedinger et al. (2015)
1. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
K.R., Koedinger, S., D'Mello, E.A., McLaughlin, Z.A., Pardos, and C.P., Rose. Data mining and
education. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 6(4), pp.333-353, 2015.
2. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
At first I searched for process mining in learning analytics using the Google Scholar search tool
using the keywords “process mining in learning analytics”. It is after which I came across the
name of this specific literature paper at the first instance, then I chose the second research paper
I found, which was this paper. I found it at the first instance.
3. Why did you select this paper?
This particular paper researches about the application of mining techniques in education and
addresses it as an emerging interdisciplinary field for research in cognitive science. The paper
also introduces the specific milestones in this regard including the current state of affairs in
educational data mining.
4. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
The paper is peer reviewed as this has been presented in the data mining knowledge discovery
article which is presented in numerous research databases.
5. Does the author(s) work in a university or a government-funded research institute? If so, which
university or research institute? If not, where do they work? What does this tell you about their
expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The authors Koedinger works as a full time professor in Carnegie Mellon University for the
subjects of human–computer interaction and psychology. His co-authors in this particular topic
has worked on the introduction of process mining techniques in the educational fields.
6. What was the paper about?
The paper develops the key milestones and introduces them with the current state affairs
including the educational data mining department for presenting insights for specific applications
and tools in cognitive science. Specifically speaking it describes what educational data mining is
all about and why it is using this particular section to be introduced in the field of education.
7. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This paper is not similar to other papers that have been read for this particular assignment as
none of them reviews the key milestone and introduces them in the field of EDM.
8. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is different from other papers reviewed in this section since none of them develop the
idea to identify the key milestones in the educational data mining field.
9. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
The similarities and dissimilarities suggests that there are various aspects of the subject about
introducing process mining in education and various departments through which they can be
addressed. My observations clarify that this particular paper has figured out the needs of process
mining and its implementation in the educational fields especially focusing on the data mining
areas. It can be concluded that the author has done justice to the article by focusing not just on
the elaborate topic of process mining in education but to a specific topic of Data Mining
altogether.
10. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
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The review of this particular research paper would add a lot of value to the following final research
paper as this would cover the aspect of data mining as a part of process mining introduced in
education.
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Liñán and Pérez (2015)
11. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
L.C., Liñán, and Á.A.J., Pérez. Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: differences,
similarities, and time evolution. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher
Education, 12(3), pp.98-112, 2015.
12. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
At first I searched for process mining in learning analytics using the Google Scholar search tool
with the keywords “process mining in learning analytics”. I had numerous paper suggestions for it.
It is after which I came across the name of this specific literature paper since it was different from
the one I chose before. Moreover, the search page was endowed with search results, I
immediately chose the next option after the first one.
13. Why did you select this paper?
This paper has been selected since it addresses the other aspect of learning analytics and that
the similarities, similarities and progress through the evolution of time.
14. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
This paper can be regarded as peer-reviewed as it has already been publishing through the
universities and knowledge society journal published by RUSC.
15. Does the author(s) work in a university or a government-funded research institute? If so, which
university or research institute? If not, where do they work? What does this tell you about their
expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The author Laura Calvet Liñán works as a part time teacher for the Open University of Catalonia
and she holds a PhD in the subject Network and Information Technologies.
16. What was the paper about?
The paper was about describing the various things that underlining about educational mining and
learning analytics and what their relationship with time evolution follows.
17. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This paper is not similar to the other people that have been reviewed in this regard since none of
the papers addresses the technological progress that it leads through learning analytics being
included in education.
18. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This paper is different from the other people that have been read for this assignment since the
paper introduces the basic idea behind the implementation of learning analytics into education.
19. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
The similarities and dissimilarities suggest that this paper is somewhat closer to the other papers
that describe the Data Mining aspects integration in learning, but at the same time is more
specific than the other pages that focus on the broader aspect of the process learning mechanism
as a whole.
20. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
The reading of this particular paper would enunciate the research team about a much in-depth
knowledge about the entire subject since it introduces the basic reasons behind implementing
process mining into education.
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Maseleno et al. (2018)
21. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
A., Maseleno, N., Sabani, M., Huda, R., Ahmad, K.A., Jasmi, and B., Basiron. Demystifying
learning analytics in personalised learning. International Journal of Engineering &
Technology, 7(3), pp.1124-1129, 2018.
22. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
At first I searched for process mining in learning analytics using the Google Scholar search tool
using the same keywords as before, which is the “process mining in learning analytics”. It is after
which I came across the name of this specific literature paper amongst numerous others.
However, this was the one that provided the information about integrated and modularized
platform which was different from the other papers.
23. Why did you select this paper?
This paper has been selected since it produces the integrated and modularized platform
development for learning analytics.
24. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
This paper has been peer reviewed as this has been presented as a doctoral dissertation for the
International Journal of Engineering and Technology in 2018.
25. Does the author(s) work in a university or a government-funded research institute? If so, which
university or research institute? If not, where do they work? What does this tell you about their
expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The author Maseleno and his co-authors are full time professors in the Institute of Informatics and
Computing Energy affiliated to Universiti Tenaga Nasional. Their working in the field of process
mining is the result of the research paper.
26. What was the paper about?
The paper is about the development of an integrated and modular as platform for open learning
analytics demystifying the personal learning experiences.
27. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
There is no similarity between this particular paper and other papers and it cannot be said that
they are similar as the author has developed this particular research work for developing the
integrated and modular is platform which was done by the author at the research process.
28. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
There is no similarity of this paper to the other reviewed articles since none of them develops in
integrated and modulus platform for open learning analytics.
29. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
The similarities and dissimilarities suggests that the paper is different from the other papers as it
specifies what the learning analytics can imbibe when they are introduced in the educational
fields. While going through the paper, the ideas that strikes any reader is the simpler way of
understanding the impact of analytics in learning. It is very important to understand analytical
skills for learning.
30. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
The reading of this paper would add a lot of value to the research paper since this enunciates the
development of a particular integrated and modular is platform for open learning analytics.
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Bolt et al. (2015)
31. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
A., Bolt, M., De Leoni, W.M., Van Der Aalst, and P., Gorissen. Exploiting Process Cubes, Analytic
Workflows and Process Mining for Business Process Reporting: A Case Study in Education.
In SIMPDA (pp. 33-47), 2015.
32. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
At first I searched for process mining in learning analytics using the Google Scholar search tool
using the keywords “process mining in education and learning analysis”. It is after which I came
across the name of this specific literature paper.
33. Why did you select this paper?
This particular paper has been selected based on the comparative process mining usage in
education where the application of the research is based upon process cubes along with their
approaches.
34. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
The paper can be e considered as a peer review journal as it is archived within the
multidisciplinary open access archived in SIMPDA, and presented research institutions in other
abroad countries.
35. Does the author(s) work in a university or a government-funded research institute? If so, which
university or research institute? If not, where do they work? What does this tell you about their
expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The author De Leoni an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, in the University of Padova
along with his renowned co-authors who work in the field of implementing process mining
techniques in educational fields.
36. What was the paper about?
The people talks about the comparative process mining in education and how the various process
mining techniques would be utilised within the education sector with the approach based on
process cubes.
37. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This paper is somewhat similar in structure with some of the papers presented but it does not
similarity index with other research papers as it describes the variance of analytical learning and
process mining in education.
38. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is nowhere similar to the other papers as none of them describes the varied stages for
analytical learning and process mining used in education.
39. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
This paper clarifies how comparative process mining in education system helps in adverting new
ideas over the educational systems. The conclusion from this paper can be availed in the form of
introducing data analytics and process mining techniques in educational systems.
40. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
The contribution of this paper would be positive towards the research paper created by the group
as this route from the basic of finding a comparative process mining utilised in education.
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Bogarín, Cerezo and Romero (2018)
41. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
A., Bogarín, R., Cerezo, and C., Romero, C. A survey on educational process mining. Wiley
Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 8(1), p.e1230, 2018.
42. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
At first I searched for process mining in learning analytics using the Google Scholar search tool
using the keywords “process mining in learning analytics”. It is after which I came across the
name of this specific literature paper.
43. Why did you select this paper?
This particular article has been selected as this conduct a survey on the educational process
mining techniques to understand their educational process mining framework.
44. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
The paper is peer reviewed as this has been presented in the data mining knowledge discovery
article for the WIRE and is included in their database.
45. Does the author(s) work in a university or a government-funded research institute? If so, which
university or research institute? If not, where do they work? What does this tell you about their
expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The authors Cristobal Romero and Sebastian Ventura work as a full time professor for Computer
sciences and numerical analysis in the University of Cordoba.
46. What was the paper about?
The paper describes the educational process mining and the results of the same with the help of a
survey run through.
47. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is not similar to other papers as they do not conduct a survey to find out the
educational process mining and its effect.
48. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is different from other papers since there has been a survey conducted to collect
appropriate data from the direct sources, and implementing them on the educational process
mining.
49. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
The similarities and dissimilarities suggests that there are various aspects of the subject about
introducing process mining in education and it justifies the system by conducting a survey. This
makes it different from the other papers since it is conducted through a series of data collection
method including primary and secondary systems that makes the process much more viable.
50. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
The reading of this particular article would be valuable to the research paper of the group
research since it is done by a particular process of primary data collection techniques through
surveys to extract out the exact ideas about implementing EPM in education.
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Barreiros, Lama, Mucientes and Vidal (2014)
51. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
B.V., Barreiros, M., Lama, M., Mucientes and J.C., Vidal. Softlearn: A process mining platform for
the discovery of learning paths. In 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on Advanced
Learning Technologies (pp. 373-375). IEEE, 2014, July.
52. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
At first I searched for process mining in learning analytics using the Google Scholar search tool
using the keywords “process mining in learning analytics”. It is after which I came across the
name of this specific literature paper and moreover since it was about a process mining software
system.
53. Why did you select this paper?
This paper has been selected scenes the particular paper introduces development software that
helps in creating a process planning platform that helps in the discovery of learning paths to be
included in education.
54. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
The paper is peer reviewed and certified as it has been presented in the 14th international
conference on advanced learning technologies in 2014.
55. Does the author(s) work in a university or a government-funded research institute? If so, which
university or research institute? If not, where do they work? What does this tell you about their
expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The author Borja Vázquez-Barreiros is a full time professor at the University of Santiago de
Compostela and specialises in algorithms and information systems.
56. What was the paper about?
The people talks about a particular application called SoftLearn that has the ability to process
mining platform for the discovery of learning paths.
57. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper does not find similarity with any of the papers that has been reviewed before since
none of them talks about the application of SoftLearn.
58. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is different from others review for this particular section since none of them have the
opportunity to enunciate a specific software tool for the entire process.
59. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
The similarities and dissimilarities suggests this particular paper describes a much more linear
aspect of process mining in education as it is strictly focusing on the software used for this
function known as SoftLearn. The introduction of this particular topic in a research paper would
provide unified direction to any person trying to input the process mining techniques in the
education system.
60. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
Knowing, developing and using about a particular application for the entire process is necessary
and therefore reading this particular article would add value to the other papers reviewed in this
regard.
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