Students, teachers, exams and MOOCs: Predicting and optimizing attainment in web-based education using a probabilistic graphical model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8726 LNAI, Issue PART 3, 2014, Pages 82-97

  Shalem, Bar ^a   Bachrach, Yoram ^b   Guiver, John ^b   Bishop, Christopher M ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84907007703     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44845-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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