An architecture for making recommendations to courseware authors using association rule mining and collaborative filtering

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 99-132

  García, Enrique ^a   Romero, Cristóbal ^a   Ventura, Sebastián ^a   Castro, Carlos De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Association rule mining; Courseware design; E learning; Recommender systems; Web based adaptive education

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COLLABORATIVE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; COURSE CONTENTS; COURSEWARE DESIGN; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; INTERESTING INFORMATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODOLOGIES; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USAGE DATUM; WEB-BASED ADAPTIVE EDUCATION; WEB-BASED COURSE;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; DATA MINING; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MINING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

TEACHING;

EID: 58849083276     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-008-9047-z     Document Type: Article

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