Abstract—Learning environments aim to deliver efficacious instruction, but rarely take into consideration the motivational factors

involved in the learning process. However, motivational aspects like engagement play an important role in effective learning—engaged

learners gain more. E-Learning systems could be improved by tracking students’ disengagement that, in turn, would allow personalized

interventions at appropriate times in order to reengage students. This idea has been exploited several times for Intelligent Tutoring

Systems, but not yet in other types of learning environments that are less structured. To address this gap, our research looks at online

learning-content-delivery systems using educational data mining techniques. Previously, several attributes relevant for disengagement

prediction were identified by means of log-file analysis on HTML-Tutor, a web-based learning environment. In this paper, we

investigate the extendibility of our approach to other systems by studying the relevance of these attributes for predicting

disengagement in a different e-learning system. To this end, two validation studies were conducted indicating that the previously

identified attributes are pertinent for disengagement prediction, and two new meta-attributes derived from log-data observations

improve prediction and may potentially be used for automatic log-file annotation.