Recommendations in online discussion forums for e-learning systems

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-176

  Abel, Fabian ^a   Bittencourt, Ig Ibert ^b   Costa, Evandro ^b   Henze, Nicola ^a   Krause, Daniel ^a   Vassileva, Julita ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information filtering; online information services; user profiles and alert services

Indexed keywords

ALERT SERVICE; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES; DISCUSSION FORUM; E-LEARNING APPLICATION; INFORMATION FILTERING; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; ONLINE INFORMATION SERVICES; PERSONALIZATIONS; SMALL DATA SET; USER FEEDBACK; USER INPUT; USER INTERACTION; USER PROFILE;

E-LEARNING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954623510     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.40     Document Type: Article

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