PhD Student

Knowledge Technology Laboratory
Science and Technology Education Center
Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
School of Education
Tel Aviv University

Phone: +972-3-6407801
E-mail: arnonherXYZYXpost.tau.ac.il
(for sending an e-mail, please put @ instead of the XYZYX)

Research Interests

• Web-based learning and instruction
• Educational data mining
• The online learner
• Affective Learning
• Information spaces data mining

Education

• Post Graduate Studies, Science Teaching Department, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, 2005
• MA, The Interdisciplinary Program for Applied Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. 2003. Thesis title: Extremal problems for the majority action on graphs (supervised by prof. Ron Holzman)
• BA (Cum Laude), Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1999

Awards

• Netvision Scholarship, Netvision Institute for Internet Studies (2007)
• IUCEL (Meital) research grant (2007)
• Award for Continuous Excellence in Teaching Assistance, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Winter semester, 2002/2003)
• Faculty Award for Continuous Excellence in Teaching Assistance, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Winter semester, 2000/2001)
• Best Teaching Assistant, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Winter semester, 1999/2000)
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Studies, Faculty of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Spring semester, 1998; Winter semester, 1997/1998; Spring Semester, 1997; Winter semester, 1996/1997)

Publications

1. 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.
2. 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). [abstract] [pdf]
3. Hershkovitz, 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]
4. Ben-Zadok, G., Hershkovitz, A., Mintz, E., & Nachmias, R. (2009). Examining online learning processes based on log files analysis: A case study, The Fifth International Conference on Multimedia and ICT in Education (m-ICTE'09), Lisbon, Portugal.
5. Cocea, M., Hershkovitz, A., & Baker, R. S. J. d. (2009). The impact of off-task and gaming on learning: Immediate or aggregate? In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED'09), Brighton, UK.
6. Hardof-Jaffe, S., Hershkovitz, A., Abu-Kishk, H., Bergman, O., & Nachmias, R. (2009). How do students organize personal information spaces? In Barnes, T., Desmarais, M., Romero, C., & Ventura, S. (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, ‎Proceedings. Cordoba, Spain. July 1-3, 2009. [pdf]
7. Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2009). Consistency of students' pace in online learning. In Barnes, T., Desmarais, M., Romero, C., & Ventura, S. (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, ‎Proceedings. Cordoba, Spain. July 1-3, 2009. Nominee for Best Student Paper. [pdf]
8. Hershkovitz, A. & Nachmias, R. (2008). Developing a log-based motivation measuring tool. In Baker, R.S.J.d., Barnes, T., Beck, J.E. (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2008: 1‎st International Conference on Educational Data Mining, ‎Proceedings. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. June 20-21, 2008. [pdf]
9. Hershkovitz, A., Moshe, L., Cohen, A., & Nachmias, R. (2007). Educational Data Mining (Panel), The Second Conference on Internet and Technology for PhD Students, Ramat Gan, Israel.
10. Nachmias, R. & Hershkovitz, A. (2007). Using Web mining for understanding the behavior of the online learner, The International Workshop on Applying Data Mining in e-Learning (ADML'07), Crete, Greece. (Proceedings of the workshop)
11. Nachmias, R. & Hershkovitz, A. (2007). Web mining in education, The Future of Web Interactions British-Israeli Conference, Tel Aviv, Isarel. (Abstract)
12. Nachmias, R. & Hershkovitz, A. (2006). Learning about the online learner, Workshop on Logging Traces of Web Activity: The Mechanics of Data Collection (in WWW'2006), Edinburgh, Scotland. [pdf]