Towards a recommender strategy for personal learning environments

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 2775-2782

  Mödritscher, Felix ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Activity model; Collaborative filtering; Personal learning environments; Recommender strategies

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ACTIVITY MODELING; ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE; LEARNING TOOL; MODEL-BASED OPC; PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; RECOMMENDER STRATEGIES; TECHNICAL SKILLS; USAGE CONTEXT;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 78650252625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2010.08.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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