Martin Drlík

• doc. PhD.
• Professor (Associate) at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra - Univerzita Konstantina Filozofa v Nitre

The identification of heterogeneous and homogeneous groups of students using clustering analysis in learning analytics is still rare. The paper describes a study in which the students’ performance data stored in the micro-learning platform Priscilla are analyzed using learning analytics methods. This study aims to identify the groups of students wi...

Educational Data Mining and learning analytics have gained significant prominence in recent years, garnering attention from researchers worldwide. This is primarily due to their potential to improve decision-making processes within higher education. This study utilizes Educational Data Mining to suggest a clustering-based approach for classifying s...

During the war, a significant number of Ukrainian universities were tragically destroyed, while others were relocated. The challenging wartime circumstances in which universities operate in Ukraine have increased the use of distance education. University management and academic staff agree that the quality of services offered hinges on the establis...

Increasing the effectiveness of programming education has emerged as an important goal in teaching programming languages in the last decade. Automatic evaluation of the correctness of the student’s source code saves teachers time and effort and allows a more comprehensive focus on the preparation of assignments with integrated feedback. The study a...

Educational data mining and learning analytics are contemporary research disciplines that can provide interesting and hidden insights into the effectiveness of different learning styles, course complexity, learning content difficulties, and learning design issues. However, these two emerging research disciplines do not deal with the initial phases...

Learning analytics and educational data mining are current research disciplines that can provide interesting and hidden insights into the effectiveness of different learning styles, the complexity of courses, educational content difficulties, and instructional design issues. Simultaneously, they can help to understand the concepts and reasons and e...

Learning programming is a very complex activity. Student must understand and master the way of thinking, which is often different from the thinking to which he is accustomed in everyday life. A virtual learning environment named Priscilla is based on an educational framework combining primary microlearning activities with an automatic evaluation of...

Research of the techniques for effective fake news detection has become very needed and attractive. These techniques have a background in many research disciplines, including morphological analysis. Several researchers stated that simple content-related n-grams and POS tagging had been proven insufficient for fake news classification. However, they...

Early and precisely predicting the students’ dropout based on available educational data belongs to the widespread research topic of the learning analytics research field. Despite the amount of already realized research, the progress is not significant and persists on all educational data levels. Even though various features have already been resea...

Understanding how software works and writing a program are currently frequent requirements when hiring employees. The complexity of learning programming often results in educational failures, student frustration and lack of motivation, because different students prefer different learning paths. Although e-learning courses have led to many improveme...

Many contemporary studies realized in the Learning Analytics research field provide substantial insights into the virtual learning environment stakeholders’ behaviour on single-course or small-scale level. They used different knowledge discovery techniques, including frequent patterns analysis. However, there are only a few studies that have explor...

The number of students who decided to study information technology related study programs is continually increasing. Introductory programming courses represent the most crucial milestone in information technology education and often reflect students' ability to think abstractly and systematically, solve problems, and design their solutions. Even th...

The analysis of data collected from the interaction of users in the virtual learning environment attracts much attention today as a promising approach for advancing the current understanding of the learning content development, learning process in general as well as VLE stakeholders’ behaviour. The learning analytics research has not frequently foc...

The teachers of programming ask often students to develop complete programs in the early stages of the course. This strategy is inadequate for many students because learning programming is a complicated process. Taxonomies of educational objectives, such as Bloom’s and its derivatives can be an excellent source to define and validate proposed educa...

This article, prepared by an international team of researchers from different scientific areas connected with ICT, e-learning, pedagogy, and other related disciplines, focuses on the objectives and some results of the international project IRNet (www.irnet.us.edu.pl). In particular, the article describes research tools, methods, and a procedure of...

If we are talking about user behavior analytics, we have to understand what the main source of valuable information is. One of these sources is definitely a web server. There are multiple places where we can extract the necessary data. The most common ways are to search for these data in access log, error log, custom log files of web server, proxy...

The paper investigates the impact of different types of e-learning course activities on the first-year university student’s results in the introductory programming course. The primary goal of three years of research is to uncover the role of a few types of activities, especially the purpose of an automated assessment. Despite the education systems...

1 września 2018 roku rozpoczął się projekt pt. FITPED-Work-based Learning in Future IT Professionals Education finansowany w ramach programu Erasmus+ KA203 Partnerstwo strategiczne Nowy projekt IT W skład konsorcjum pracującego nad projektem wchodzi siedem instytucji partnerskich: koordynatorem jest Uniwersytet Konstantyna Filozofa w Nitrze (Słowac...

The learning analytics communities, as well as most learning analytics research, have not frequently focused on time-based trends in the same virtual learning environment over different years of deployment, or temporal trends in the selection of different activity types over a typical day. The paper contributes to this debate and provides a novel a...

The paper introduces an architecture of the system for teaching and learning programming based on interac-tivity and modern educational approaches like gamification, microlearning, automated assessment, community learning, learning-by-doing, learning analytics, and personalization and presents design of the software architecture. Firstly, the requi...

The teachers of programming ask often students to develop complete programs in the early stages of the course. This strategy is inadequate for many students because learning programming is a complicated process. Taxono-mies of educational objectives, such as Bloom's and its derivatives can be an excellent source to define and validate proposed educ...

The different web mining methods and techniques can help to solve some typical issues of the contemporary websites, contribute to more effective personalization, improve a website structure and reorganize its web pages. However, only several papers tried to combine web structure and web usage mining (WUM) methods with this aim. The paper researches...

Application of microlearning-based training in higher education raises several new questions about the didactical design of learning activities, effective methodologies as well as technical implementation issues. The paper describes a framework of microlearning-based training mobile application for improving programming skills, which will integrate...

The chapter aims at finding out how students from selected universities in different European countries use e-environment and e-resources at their universities. Students’ opinion was gathered using a survey. The questionnaire consisted of 14 questions and created the basis for the evaluation of a university e-environment. It was assumed that partic...

Educational data preprocessing from log files represents a time-consuming phase of the knowledge discovery process. It consists of data cleaning, user identification, session identification and path completion phase. The paper attempts to identify phases, which are necessary in the case of preprocessing of educational data for further application o...

We propose indicators for evaluation of e-environment and evaluation of ICT competences. We analyse data gathered from the research, which was conducted in several European and non-European universities joined in the 7RP project IRNet. One part of the survey was focused on identifying the ways students' use IT tools available in the e-environments...

The aim of the chapter is to provide a methodology description that can be used in the modeling of a virtual learning environment (VLE) for stakeholders’ behavior with reference to time. The presented methodology allows the probability modeling of stakeholders’ accesses to the different web parts (activities, e-learning courses, course categories)...

The article describes some preliminary results of the implementation of Work- Package 4 (WP4) “Selection and testing new IT tools” in the framework of the international research network (IRNet) and researchers from partner institutions from Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Australia. These results concern analysis and study of some categories of IT t...

This article, prepared by an international team of researchers from different scientific areas, connected with ICT, e-learning, pedagogy, and other related disciplines, focuses on the objectives and some results of the international project IRNet. In particular, the article describes research tools, methods, and a procedure of the WP2, that is, ana...

This article presents discussion of a round table debate «Open educational E-environment of modern university» a group of European experts shared their professional and personal insight on the issue of construction, introduction and sustainable development of open educational environments in the Information Age.

The article describes the preliminary results of the implementation of WorkPackage 4 (WP4) “Selection and testing new ICT tools” in the framework of the international research network IRNe, represented by researchers from partner institutions in Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Australia. These results concern the analysis and study of some categories of...

The paper represents the preliminary results of the ongoing comparative study of information environments in the frame of the European project 'IRNet'. The aim of this study is to substantiate and verify a set of external indicators for the virtual educational environment of the University, which allows to determine its quality and to identify conc...

The paper represents the preliminary results of the ongoing comparative study of information environments in the frame of the European project 'IRNet'. The aim of this study is to substantiate and verify a set of external indicators for the virtual educational environment of the University, which allows to determine its quality and to identify conc...

The article describes some preliminary results of the implementation of Work- Package 4 (WP4) “Selection and testing new IT tools” in the framework of the international research network (IRNet) and researchers from partner institutions from Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Australia. These results concern analysis and study of some categories of IT t...

This article presents examples of good practice in the creation of an information and educational environment and comprehensive, systematic and effective use of the Internet services offered by The Faculty of Ethnology and Sciences of Education in Cieszyn (University of Silesia), Faculty of Science, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra a...

This article presents a diagnostic instrument and data analysis results within the European IRNet Project. The aims of the survey included the determination of students’ attitude to collaboration, cooperation, knowledge sharing and virtual interactions within a university e-learning environment. The data can not only serve as the basis of determini...

This paper is focused on a utilization of the web usage mining and web structure mining methods. We tried to answer the question if the expected visit rate of individual web pages correlates with the observed visit rate of the same web pages. We used web server log files as a data source. We applied several log file pre-processing methods to identi...

The paper describes an alternative method of website analysis and optimization that combines methods of web usage and web structure mining - discovering of web users’ behaviour patterns as well as discovering knowledge from the website structure. Its primary objective is identifying of web pages, in which the value of their importance, estimated by...

The paper introduces an alternative method for website analysis that combines two web mining research fields - discovering of web users’ behaviour patterns as well as discovering knowledge from the website structure. The main objective of the paper is to identify the web pages, in which the value of importance of these web pages, estimated by the w...

The aim of the paper is the probability modelling of accesses to the different parts of e-learning course in interactive learning environment depending on time. This problem belongs to the open questions of the contemporary emerging discipline Educational Data Mining.We are concerned with the access probabilities to the individual parts of e-learni...

The paper analyses domestic and foreign market participants' interests in mandatory Basel 2, Pillar 3 information disclosure of a commercial bank during the recent financial crisis. The authors try to ascertain whether the purposes of Basel 2 regulations under the Pillar 3 - Market discipline, publishing the financial and risk related information,...

The paper focuses on modelling of commercial bank website visitors' behaviour. The authors analyse domestic and foreign market participants' interests in mandatory financial information disclosure of a commercial bank during the recent financial crisis and try to answer the question whether the purposes of Basel 2 regulations under the Pillar 3 - M...

The European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG) present nowadays the most famous and frequently used documents in the field of quality assurance in higher education. The authors deal with the problem of ESG implementation at the university. They propose a model of support information system, which covers all parts defined in ESG....

Discovering of behaviour patterns of website visitors is one of the most common applications in web log mining. Based on the discovered users' behaviour patterns, it is possible to restructure or in combination with other knowledge personalize the examined website, portal or other web-based system. Data preparation represents the first inevitable s...

One of the methods of web log mining is also discovering patterns of behavior of web site visitors. Based on the found users' behavior patterns that are represented by sequence rules, it is possible to modify and improve web site of the organization. Data for the analysis are gained from the web server log file. These anonymous data represent the p...

The paper introduces the proof of concept of the e-learning courses quality evaluation framework and its implementation into the quality assurance in higher education. We summarize general issues of the internal quality assurance. We pay more attention to the evaluation of the e-learning course quality framework itself in the context of Part 1 of E...

The effort of using web usage mining methods in the area of educational data mining is to reveal the knowledge hidden in the log files of the web and database servers of contemporary virtual learning environments. By applying data mining methods to these data, interesting patterns concerning the students' behavior can be identified. These methods h...

The objective of the paper is the verifi cation of the fulfi lment of the purposes of Basel II, Pillar 3 - market discipline during the recent fi nancial crisis. The objective of the paper is to describe the current state of the working out of the project that is focused on the analysis of the market participants' interest in mandatory disclosure o...

Analyzing the unique types of data that come from educational systems can help find the most effective structure of the elearning courses, optimize the learning content, recommend the most suitable learning path based on student's behavior, or provide more personalized environment. We focus only on the processes involved in the data preparation sta...

The national project of The Central Register of the Theses has started in 2008. The project serves as an integrating system for acquisition, archiving and plagiarism detection of the theses from academic information systems of Slovak universities. The first phase of its development has been devoted to the tasks accompanying the processes of acquisi...

E-learning has become an increasingly popular learning approach in universities due to the rapid growth of web-based technologies. E-learning implementation at universities is a long-lasting and complicated process. This process has to overcome a wide range of internal and external factors influencing e-learning effectiveness and content quality re...

The purpose of using web usage mining methods in the area of learning management systems is to reveal the knowledge hidden in the log files of their web and database servers. By applying data mining methods to these data, interesting patterns concerning the users’ behaviour can be identified. They help us to find the most effective structure of the...

The aim of the paper is the probability modelling of accesses to the categories of activities of e-learning course in learning management system. We are concerned with the access probabilities to individual activities of e-learning course content depending on the part of the week (workweek and weekend). The probabilities are estimated through multi...

Using an experiment, two forms of query creation (SQL and QBE) have been compared from three points of view: the time period necessary for forming queries, their correctness, and their authors’ comfort during the formation process. The results were analyzed using advanced statistical methods. Some of them confirm popular expectations, while others...

To benefit from data stored in growing numbers of database systems, the number of users capable of finding relevant information should also grow. They should be capable of posing requests, formulate relevant queries, and interpret the obtained results. The user interface should allow them to concentrate on the core of the problem without disturbanc...

The extension of (Internet) databases forces everyone to become more familiar with techniques of data storage and retrieval because users’ success often depends on their ability to pose right questions and to be able to interpret their answers. University programs pay more attention to developing database programming skills than to data exploitatio...

Literature sources show that e-learning implementation at universities is a long and complicated process. This process has to overcome a wide range of internal and external factors. These factors and their correlative interactions are a key factor resulting in absence of generally usable manager handbook which could be used as a guide in e-learning...

The online knowledge testing and evaluation pose one of the main parts in the area of distance education. Their greatest problem is plagiarism. The authors deal with the term definition of the plagiarism and go into some important facets of the plagiarism prevention and revelation in details. They analyze actual state of the fight against plagiaris...