A personalized learning content adaptation mechanism to meet diverse user needs in mobile learning environments

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 5-49

  Su, Jun Ming ^a   Tseng, Shian Shyong ^b   Lin, Huan Yu ^c   Chen, Chun Han ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Content adaptation; Data mining; Learning object repository; Mobile learning environment; Personalized learning content

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ADAPTATION; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; LEARNING MATERIALS; LEARNING OBJECT REPOSITORIES; MOBILE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; NETWORK CONDITION; PERSONALIZED LEARNING; SERVER LOGS; SHARABLE CONTENT OBJECT REFERENCE MODELS; SYNTHESIS PROCESS; USAGE CONTEXT; USER NEED; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; MOBILE DEVICES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955813238     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-010-9094-0     Document Type: Article

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