FST Graduate Research Topic

Research Topic: Educational data visualization
Suggested By: Ali Dewan
Last Update: April 17th, 2025

Educational institutions capture huge amounts of educational data, especially in online learning. Data mining techniques have shown promises to interpret these data using different patterns. However, understanding the mining patterns and extracting meaningful information from the data require reasonable skills and knowledge for the users. Information visualization, due to its potential to display large amount of data, may fill this gap. In this research project, we will analyze various visualization techniques for extracting meaningful information from the educational data, especially dealing with monitoring student performance, understanding learning style, analyzing course and program status, and dropout prediction. We will develop a learner- or instructor-focused effective visualization system for online learning environment.