User-centred design and educational data mining support during the recommendations elicitation process in social online learning environments

Expert Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 293-311

  Santos, Olga C ^a   Boticario, Jesus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

educational data mining; educational recommender systems; ISO 9241 210; TORMES methodology; user centred design

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USER CENTERED DESIGN;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; E-LEARNING SERVICES; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; ISO 9241-210; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING APPROACH; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; TORMES METHODOLOGY;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84926517311     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/exsy.12041     Document Type: Article

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