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This article transfers concepts and methods from business process modeling and workflow management to the field of learnflows, i.e. learning and teaching processes. It is first shown that these two areas have a lot of commonalities and similarities. On the other hand, there are also crucial specifics of learning processes that have to be taken into account additionally. We then introduce and discuss modeling languages for learnflows which are based on ideas from workflow modeling. Finally, we develop an approach to automatically generate learnflow models from log files of learning systems by adapting workflow mining methods.
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Bergenthum, R., Desel, J., Harrer, A., Mauser, S. (2012). Modeling and Mining of Learnflows. In: Jensen, K., Donatelli, S., Kleijn, J. (eds) Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6900. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29072-5_2
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