Data mining for providing a personalized learning path in creativity: An application of decision trees

Computers and Education

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 199-210

  Lin, Chun Fu ^a   Yeh, Yu Chu ^b   Hung, Yu Hsin ^c   Chang, Ray I ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Architectures for educational technology systems; Intelligent tutoring systems; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURES FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM; GAME-BASED LEARNING; HYBRID DECISION TREES; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; PERSONAL LEARNING; PERSONALIZED LEARNING; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGY;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; E-LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION; STUDENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84878866780     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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