Although, using data mining in higher education is a
recent research field, there are many works in this area.
That is because of its potentials to educational institutes.
[14] have a survey on educational data mining between
1995 and 2005. They concluded that educational data
mining is a promising area of research and it has a
specific requirements not presented in other domains.
Thus, work should be oriented towards educational
domain of data mining.
[10] gave a case study that used educational data mining
to identify behavior of failing students to warn students
at risk before final exam. [15] gave another case study
of using educational data mining in Moodle course
management system. They used each step in data
mining process for mining e-learning data. Also,
educational data mining used by [11] to predict
students' final grade using data collected from Webbased
system. [3] used educational data mining to
identify and then enhance educational process in higher
educational system which can improve their decisionmaking
process. Finally, [17] used data mining to assist
in development of new curricula, and to help
engineering students to select an appropriate major