An ontology-driven OLAP system to help teachers in the analysis of web learning object repositories

Information Systems Management

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 198-206

  Limongelli, Carla ^a   Sciarrone, Filippo ^b   Starace, Paolo ^b   Temperini, Marco ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b E Learning Division   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Information retrieval; Learning object repository

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TOOLS; INTERNET BASED LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY; LEARNING OBJECT REPOSITORIES; LEARNING OBJECTS; LEARNING RESOURCE; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATED SYSTEMS;

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TOOLS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77954570359     PISSN: 10580530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10580530.2010.493810     Document Type: Article

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