Activity sequence modelling and dynamic clustering for personalized e-learning

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 51-97

  Köck, Mirjam ^a   Paramythis, Alexandros ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Clustering; Data mining; E learning; Unsupervised learning; User modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY SEQUENCE; ADAPTIVITY; AUTOMATED CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING; DYNAMIC CLUSTERING; EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERACTION PROCESS; LEARNING CONTEXT; PERSONALIZATIONS; PERSONALIZED E-LEARNING; REAL WORLD DATA; USER MODELING;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; E-LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955827700     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-010-9087-z     Document Type: Article

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