Books in the River Publishers Series in Innovation and Change in Education - Cross-cultural Perspective series

This book is based on the research work undertaken by the authors on the theme "Mining of Educational Data for the Analysis and Prediction of Students' Academic Performance". The basic know-how presented can be treated as guide for educational data mining implementation using R and Rattle open source data mining tools.

Presents recent developments in university-industry-collaborations, using case studies from Japan, and showing the mutual needs from both universities and enterprises in the knowledge-based society. Technical topics discussed include development of university-industry collaboration (UIC); development of UIC in Japan; case studies of UIC in Japan; and the global contribution of UIC from Japan.