Creating Usage Context-Based Object Similarities to Boost Recommender Systems in Technology Enhanced Learning

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 274-285

  Niemann, Katja ^a   Wolpers, Martin ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning Analytics; Learning Web Portals; Recommender Systems; Technology Enhanced Learning; Web Mining

Indexed keywords

PORTALS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

LEARNING ANALYTICS; LEARNING OBJECTS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING; USAGE CONTEXT; WEB MINING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84961859399     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2014.2379261     Document Type: Article

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