Applying Web usage mining for personalizing hyperlinks in Web-based adaptive educational systems

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 828-840

  Romero, Cristóbal ^a   Ventura, Sebastián ^a   Zafra, Amelia ^a   Bra, Paul de ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypermedia; Data mining; Education and e learning; Recommender system; Web mining

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA; ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; HYPERLINKS; PERSONALIZATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEM; WEB MINING; WEB MINING ALGORITHMS; WEB USAGE MINING;

DATA MINING; E-LEARNING; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

MINING;

EID: 67650245090     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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