EVALUATION OF PRIOR WORK

Critical Evaluation of prior work and research into the investigation of Network Device Log Files and Email Systems

Critical Evaluation of prior work and research into the investigation of Network Device Log Files and Email Systems

Introduction

Activities File: Marked by the class session identifier from class sessions file, each record in this file represents an occurrence of usage of one of the components. The information included in this file is under these headers: Class session identifier: To connect each record with the class session, this field includes the same information from the matching record in class sessions file. Activity type: This field contains information about the component of the software being utilized (Points activity, quick poll, screens capture, etc) (Altheide & Carvey, 2011).

Activity detail: Different activities have different attributes in this field: Activity center: Whether this is a point, line or equation activity; quick poll: type of question used (i.e. open response, multiple choice) and the question probe that teacher sent to the student calculators; learn check: Name of the file that has been transferred and direction of the transfer (from teacher to students or vice versa); screen capture: Whether teacher started or refreshed the student calculators' screen. Start and end time stamps (Britz, 2009). Each component has a start and stop button, with the exception of screen capture which has refresh button. Number of students enrolled in the activity.

Discussion

An increase in the number of e-mail messages might add to the overflow of information which has been experienced by many users' (Caloyannides, 2004). However, the numbers of users which have been overflowed are still identified for using e-mails for strong a large part of their information flow. Do these aspects related to the flow of information actually make the e-mail an essential tool for handling information? Lately, the concept regarding the overflow of communication has been suggested for replacing the concept of overflow of information. Some of the researches conducted on the mangers establish the result which suggests that mangers spend almost 60 to 80 percent of their time on communication (Casey, 2011). These researches imply that managers might be exposed to the overflow of communication to a large extent. How the e-mail does affect the overflow of communication of the managers of an organization.

Attendance File includes student usernames and a class session identifier. Activity Types File is a simple list of possible components with id numbers which are used to relate activity records, these last two files are not collected and not included in the analysis. Although there are countless of different types of information that can be extracted from log file analysis, this presentation focuses on the solutions of practical issues related to employing a concrete information source that provides data for the broader research questions asked in CCMS project (Ferraro, Casey & McGrath, 2005). The types of information gathered are as following; technology use: Average duration and weekly frequency of use of the software. Pedagogical use: Types and frequency of instructional activity use (activity center), average number ...