A mining-based approach on discovering courses pattern for constructing suitable learning path

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 4156-4167

  Hsieh, Tung Cheng ^a   Wang, Tzone I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concept Lattice; Data mining; Formal Concept Analysis (FCA); Learning path; Self directed learner

Indexed keywords

APRIORI ALGORITHMS; CONCEPT LATTICE; CONCEPT LATTICES; EFFICIENT LEARNING; FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS; LEARNING MATERIALS; LEARNING OBJECTS; LEARNING PATHS; PREFERENCE-BASED; SPECIFIC LEARNING; SUPPORT SYSTEMS; WEB BASED LEARNING;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77249123810     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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