WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education
Print ISSN: 1790-1979, E-ISSN: 2224-3410
Volume 13, 2016
Evaluation of Vocational e-Learning Seminars
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Abstract: The use of e-training is nowadays widely applied into various sectors such as higher education institutions (HEIs), civil society or non-profit sector, in unions of rural sector, in training banking personnel. Newly introduced data analysis methods have been applied in the field of e-learning and evaluation. Data mining has been used for finding potential areas in which data mining techniques can be applied in the field of Higher education. Within this work, a text mining method applied to analyse the text data that have been collected from replies of public sector servants, during their online training seminars. A total of 379 trainees in 26 seminars conducted by the National Centre of Public Administration between the years 2008 to 2012 and were used as input in this evaluation. The procedure of classification was following a typical text mining analysis. In order to analyse the trainee’s opinion, a content analysis utilised and a more sophisticated text mining method with the use of Rapid Miner Tool was performed. This analysis resulted that among the 379 trainees appeared 446 occurrences of positive phrases, meaning 1.17 positive comments per trainee and 93 negative phrases that appeared with an average of 0.25 words per trainee. Furthermore the fraction of positive to negative opinions does not seem to be effected by the trainees’ gender.
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Pages: 84-91
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