Interactive Tools for Online Learning. ITOL (1)

"Data Analysys techniques in a virtual-lab environment"

Director de la Tesis: Dr. José Antonio Morán

Descripción de la línea de investigación
The project focuses on the research of data analysis techniques and information data management in an virtual-lab specific environment for multimedia and telecommunications. The validation of the new approach of the new interactive virtual-lab needs the use of advanced data analysis techniques. The PhD student research is focused in the use of advanced data analysis techniques statistical analysis, genetic algorithms and others) to:

• analyze and modeling the student use of the objects in the new online-lab in order to conclude which is the best use and the best distribution of interactive objects in the virtual-lab.
• define a set of rules to help the teacher in the evaluation of student activities.
• predict the student performance from the results of the previous evaluation activities.

The results of the research project should help the academic community to improve the design of virtual-labs in multimedia and telecommunication grades.

Perfil académico
The PhD vacant is open to highly motivated engineers who have a minimum of an upper second-class honors degree or equivalent in an appropriate engineering discipline. A lower undergraduate qualification is acceptable if supplemented with an appropriate postgraduate qualification (e.g. MBA/MSc) and/or substantial industrial experience. Applicants must be able to demonstrate good communication skills and experience in any of the following languages: Java, .NET, C#, C++ or C, SQL. It will be also apreciated theknowledge of data mining techniques, genetic algorithms andstatistical analysis and client-site applications and server-siteapplications.