A context-aware adaptive learning system using agents

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3280-3286

  Yaghmaie, Mahkameh ^a   Bahreininejad, Ardeshir ^a,b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Agent; Intelligent tutoring systems; Ontology; SCORM

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LEARNING; ADAPTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS; CONTEXT-AWARE; EDUCATION AND TRAINING; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; LEARNING CONTENTS; OPEN-SOURCE; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SCORM; SEMANTIC WEB ONTOLOGIES; SHARABLE CONTENT OBJECT REFERENCE MODELS; SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS; WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650717386     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.08.113     Document Type: Article

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