A deterministic crowding evolutionary algorithm to form learning teams in a collaborative learning context

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8584-8592

  Yannibelli, Virginia ^a,b,c   Amandi, Analía ^a,b,c  

^a University Campus   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c Paraje Arroyo Seco ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Evolutionary algorithms; Learning team formation; Roles

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DATA SETS; DETERMINISTIC CROWDING; LEARNING TEAM FORMATION; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; ROLES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84859216351     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.195     Document Type: Article

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