La Educación Virtual en el Ecuador. “Análisis de los usos de la tecnología en los estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional de Loja”

Abstract

The investigation determined the incidence of family income of students from the National University of Loja on using the Internet in academic activities and entertainment; It also seeks to check the impact of the use of the Internet in relation to academic performance. For this, the process of extracting knowledge (KDD) was used in conjunction with tasks and clustering algorithms such as, for grouping students according to their common characteristics, resulting clusters called profiles: profile of Internet use in academic activities and profile of Internet use for entertainment, each consisting of three levels. The results obtained are verified with the discriminant analysis in order to obtain the percentage of accuracy of better discriminate groups and finally for verifying the hypotheses technique predictive data mining applied as the binomial and multinomial logistic regression