Quality Rating and Recommendation of Learning Objects

Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 337-373

  Kumar, Vivekanandan ^a   Nesbit, John ^a   Winne, Philip ^a   Hadwin, Allyson ^b   Jamieson Noel, Dianne ^a   Han, Kate ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian Belief Network; Learning Object; Parent Node; Quality Rating; Quality Review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961813446     PISSN: 16103947     EISSN: 21978441     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-758-9_12     Document Type: Chapter

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