Learning Object Recommendations for Teachers Based on Elicited ICT Competence Profiles

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 67-80

  Sergis, Stylianos ^a,b   Sampson, Demetrios G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Learning Objects; Personalized E Learning; Recommender Systems; Web Services

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE; LEARNING OBJECTS; PERSONALIZED E-LEARNING; PERSONALIZED SERVICE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY; PROFESSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING;

TEACHING;

EID: 84964510015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19391382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2015.2434824     Document Type: Article

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