I recently got into a discussion about datamining. I actually think we have just started to scratch the surface of big data, Learning Analytics and Educational Datamining. As, for example, the Digitale Mathematical Environment (DME, see here), can produce large logfiles of all students’ actions it would be interesting to see if we can find patterns with machine learning techniques. One thing I would like to find out is whether a collaboration with a Computer Science department is possible. I was just dabbling in Rapid Miner, which works and looks great. Using Paren, Automatic System Construction, I trained a sample set of information on Irises. For the future I will see if I can use Rapid Miner. Another option is Weka.
Christian Bokhove 