An empirical evaluation of learner performance in e-learning recommender systems and an adaptive hypermedia system

Malaysian Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 141-152

  Ghauth, Khairil Imran ^a   Abdullah, Nor Aniza ^b  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypermedia system; Collaborative filtering; Content based filtering; E learning; Recommendation system

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650900644     PISSN: 01279084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22452/mjcs.vol23no3.1     Document Type: Article

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