Context-aware recommender systems for learning: A survey and future challenges

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 318-335

  Verbert, Katrien ^a   Manouselis, Nikos ^b,c   Ochoa, Xavier ^d   Wolpers, Martin ^e   Drachsler, Hendrik ^f   Bosnic, Ivana ^g   Duval, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b University of Alcala   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^f OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adaptive and intelligent educational systems; personalized e learning; system applications and experience

Indexed keywords

BUILDING INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; CONTEXTUALIZATION; FUTURE CHALLENGES; INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; PERSONALIZED E-LEARNING; SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING;

E-LEARNING; RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870994062     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2012.11     Document Type: Review

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