A Probabilistic Approach to Modeling Students' Interactions in a Learning Management System for Facilitating Distance Learning

D Karapiperis, K Tzafilkou, R Tsoni, G Feretzakis… - Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Learning mostly involves communication and interaction that leads to new information being
processed, which eventually turns into knowledge. In the digital era, these actions pass …

Revealing latent traits in the social behavior of distance learning students

R Tsoni, CΤ Panagiotakopoulos… - Education and Information …, 2022 - Springer
This paper proposes a multilayered methodology for analyzing distance learning students'
data to gain insight into the learning progress of the student subjects both in an individual …

Incorporating Data Warehouses into Data Pipelines for Deploying Learning Analytics Dashboards

R Tsoni, G Garani, VS Verykios - 2023 14th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
From the data loading to the final reporting, a Learning Analytics (LA) cycle should be an
articulated yet structured and repeatable process. Data from the online students' activity can …

Exploiting Properties of Student Networks to Enhance Learning in Distance Education

R Tsoni, E Paxinou, A Gkoulalas-Divanis… - Information, 2024 - mdpi.com
Distance Learning has become the “new normal”, especially during the pandemic and due
to the technological advances that are incorporated into the teaching procedure. At the same …

Revealing latent student traits in distance learning through SNA and PCA

R Tsoni, E Sakkopoulos, VS Verykios - … in the Educational Process: Vol 1 …, 2022 - Springer
Distance Learning has moved almost completely online, gaining ground in an educational
setting of constantly increasing demand. Physical distance poses barriers in the …

Data pipelines for educational data mining in distance education

R Tsoni, G Garani, VS Verykios - Interactive Learning …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
New challenges in education demand effective solutions. Although Learning Analytics (LA),
Educational Data Mining (EDM) and the use of Big Data are often presented as a panacea …

Centrality Metrics from Students' Discussion Fora at Distance Education

E Paxinou, E Manousou, VS Verykios… - … & Applications (IISA), 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we applied the HITS algorithm, an advanced network-based algorithm that
produces the metrics “Authority” and “Hub” to indicate the importance of the nodes (tutors …

On the equivalence between bimodal and unimodal students' collaboration networks in Distance Learning

R Tsoni, E Sakkopoulos… - Intelligent Decision …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
This work is aiming to contribute to the field of Distance Learning through Learning
Analytics. We propose a methodological framework based on network analysis metrics to …

A Data Pipeline Approach for Building Learning Analytics Dashboards

R Tsoni, D Kalles, V Verykios - … of the 12th Hellenic Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In the era of data abundance, the ability to leverage data to assess the learning process is of
great importance. Learning Analytics has been widely used and different approaches of …

A distance learning VR technology tool for science labs

E Paxinou, K Mitropoulos… - … & Applications (IISA), 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distance learning technology and online learning are here to stay. The pandemic crisis
made that very clear but the increasing number of the students who are grown up as “digital …