Profiling student learning styles with multilayer perceptron neural networks

Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2510-2515

  Latham, Annabel ^a   Crockett, Keeley ^a   Mclean, David ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Computer education and elearning; Intelligent tutoring systems; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; COMPUTER EDUCATION; COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; LEARNING STYLE; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; STUDENT BEHAVIOURS; STUDENT LEARNING;

CYBERNETICS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84893605608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2013.428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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