What do you recommend? Implementation and analyses of collaborative information filtering of web resources for education

Instructional Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 299-316

  Recker, Mimi M ^a   Walker, Andrew ^b   Lawless, Kimberly ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative information filtering; User studies; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038167274     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024686010318     Document Type: Article

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