Contributions to adaptive educational hypermedia systems via on-line Learning Style Estimation

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 322-339

  Botsios, Sotiris ^a   Georgiou, Demetrius ^a   Safouris, Nikolaos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptive educational hypermedia systems; Bayesian networks; Learning style estimation; Probabilistic expert systems; User modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149096311     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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