Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

Hershkovitz, A., & Nachmias, R. (In press). Online persistence in higher education Web-supported courses. To appear in The Internet and Higher Education.

Hershkovitz, A., & Azran. R., Hardof-Jaffe, S., & Nachmias, R. (In press). Types of online hierarchical repository structures. To appear in The Internet and Higher Education.

Hardof-Jaffe, S., Hershkovitz, A., Abu-Kishk, H., Bergman, O., & Nachmias, R. (2009). Students’ organization strategies of personal information space. Journal of Digital Information, 10(5). [pdf]

Herhskovitz, A., & Nachmias, R. (2009). Learning about online learning processes and students’ motivation through Web usage mining, Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 5(2009), 197-214. [pdf]

Book Chapters

Hershkovitz, A., & Nachmias, R. (Accepted). Log-based assessment of motivation in online learning. In C. Romero, S. Ventura, S. Viola, M. Pechenizkiy, and R. Baker (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Data Mining. Virginia Beach, VA: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Hershkovitz, A., & Nachmias, R. (2010). Is Students’ Activity in LMS Persistent? In R.S.J.d. Baker, A. Merceron, & P.I. Jr. Pavlik (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2010: 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining (Pittsburgh, PA, June 11-13, 2010), ‎Proceedings, 295-296. [pdf]

Hardof-Jaffe, S., Hershkovitz, A., Azran, R., & Nachmias, R. (2010). Hierarchical Structures of Content Items in LMS. In R.S.J.d. Baker, A. Merceron, & P.I. Jr. Pavlik (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2010: 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining (Pittsburgh, PA, June 11-13, 2010), ‎Proceedings, 293-294. [pdf]

Ben-Zadok, G., Hershkovitz, A., & Nachmias, R. (2009). A case study of assessing learning process in Web-based science learning environment using visual representation of log files. In A. Méndez-Vilas, A. Solano Martin, J.A. Mesa González, & J .Mesa González (Eds.) Research, Reflections and Innovations in Integrating ICT in Education: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Multimedia and ICT in Education (m-ICTE’09, Lisbon, Portugal, April 22-24, 2009), Volume 2, 55-59. [pdf]

Cocea, M., Hershkovitz, A., & Baker, R. S. J. d. (2009). The impact of off-task and gaming on learning: Immediate or aggregate? In Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 507-514. [pdf]

Hardof-Jaffe, S., Hershkovitz, A., Abu-Kishk, H., Bergman, O., & Nachmias, R. (2009). How do students organize personal information spaces? In T. Barnes, M. Desmarais, C. Romero, & S. Ventura (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining (Cordoba, Spain, July 1-3, 2009), ‎Proceedings, 250-258. [pdf]

Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2009). Consistency of students’ pace in online learning. In T. Barnes, M. Desmarais, C. Romero, & S. Ventura (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining (Cordoba, Spain, July 1-3, 2009), ‎Proceedings, 71-80. Final Nominee for Best Student Paper. [pdf]

Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2008). Developing a log-based motivation measuring tool. In R.S.J.d. Baker, T. Barnes, & J.E. Beck (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2008: 1‎st International Conference on Educational Data Mining (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 20-21, 2008), ‎Proceedings, 226-233. [pdf]

Other Conference and Workshop Presentations

Hershkovitz, A. & Forkosh-Baruch, A. (2010). The use of Twitter and Facebook in the Israeli higher-education [in Hebrew], Eigth Israeli Conference of the Inter-University Center for e-Learning (IUCEL). Ra’anana, Israel (June 30).

Azran, R., Hardof-Jaffe, S., Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2010). Online repositories’ structures in Web-supported courses [in Hebrew], Fifth Chais Conference on Instructional Technologies Research. Ra’anana, Israel (February 10).

Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (Accepted). Consistency of pace in online learning [in Hebrew], Fifth Chais Conference on Instructional Technologies Research. Ra’anana, Israel (February 10, 2010).

Hardof-Jaffe, S., Hershkovitz, A., Abu-Kishk, H., Bergman, O., & Nachmias, R. (2009). Students’ organization strategies of personal information space files [in Hebrew], Seventh Israeli Conference of the Inter-University Center for e-Learning (IUCEL). Ramat-Gan, Israel (October 14).

Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2009). Developing a log-based motivation measuring tool, Fourth Chais Conference on Instructional Technologies Research. Ra’anana, Israel (February 18).

Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2008). Identification of motivation factors using log files [in Hebrew], Second Conference on Internet Research for PhD Students, Tel Aviv, Israel (May 27).

Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2008). Motivation measuring based on log files [in Hebrew], Sixth Israeli Conference of the Inter-University Center for e-Learning (IUCEL). Haifa, Israel (August 6).

Hershkovitz, A., Leiba, M., Cohen, A., & Nachmias, R. (2007). Educational Data Mining panel [in Hebrew], Second Conference on Internet and Technology for PhD Students, Ramat Gan, Israel (November 20).

Nachmias, R. & Hershkovitz, A. (2007). Using Web mining for understanding the behavior of the online learner, International Workshop on Applying Data Mining in e-Learning (ADML’07) as part of the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07), Crete, Greece (September 18). [workshop proceedings pdf]

Nachmias, R. & Hershkovitz, A. (2007). Web mining in education, The Future of Web Interactions British-Israeli Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel (May 1).

Nachmias, R. & Hershkovitz, A. (2006). Learning about the online learner, Workshop on Logging Traces of Web Activity: The Mechanics of Data Collection as part of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW’2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (May 23).