A Study on E-Learning in Rural India by EDM Approach

The scope of online education in India is actually much wider. The tremendous growth of the economy in the recent past has also helped in the growth of online education in India. E-learning in India is specially popular with the young professionals who have joined the work force quite early but still would like to continue their education that may help them move up their career ladder quickly and safely. They find online education in India very convenient, as the nature of the course work does not require them to attend regular classes. Moreover reputed institutes like Indian Institute of management, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade are today offering e-learning courses. Thus e-learning in India makes it possible for the learners to pursue their education from reputed institutes without much hassle. Educational Data Mining is an emerging discipline, concerned with developing methods for exploring the unique types of data that come from educational settings, and using those methods to better understand students, and the settings which they learn in. Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information It allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it and summarize the relationships identified. It is the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational databases. This paper surveys the application of data mining to traditional educational systems, particular web-based courses, well-known learning content management systems, and adaptive and intelligent web-based educational systems.