Competence description for personal recommendations: The importance of identifying the complexity of learning and performance situations

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 141-152

  Prins, Frans J ^a   Nadolski, Rob J ^b   Berlanga, Adriana J ^b   Drachsler, Hendrik ^b   Hummel, Hans G K ^b   Koper, Rob ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competence description; Learning and performance situations; Personal recommender system

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149094114     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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