Automatic group formation for informal collaborative learning

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 231-234

  Rubens, Neil ^a   Vilenius, Mikko ^a   Okamoto, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic group formation; Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL); Data mining; Expertise finding; Informal learning; Mashup; Similarity based learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; EXPERTISE FINDING; GROUP FORMATIONS; INFORMAL LEARNING; MASHUP; SIMILARITY-BASED LEARNING;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OPEN SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84856888880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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