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Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning

Research Trends and Applications

  • Presents cutting edge research from leading experts in the growing field of Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSys TEL)

  • International contributions are included to demonstrate the merging of various efforts and communities

  • Topics include: Linked Data and the Social Web as Facilitators for TEL Recommender Systems in Research and Practice, Personalised Learning-Plan Recommendations in Game-Based Learning and Recommendations from Heterogeneous Sources in a Technology Enhanced Learning Ecosystem

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. User and Item Data

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Towards Automated Evaluation of Learning Resources Inside Repositories

      • Cristian Cechinel, Sandro da Silva Camargo, Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, Miguel-Ángel Sicilia
      Pages 25-46
    3. A Survey on Linked Data and the Social Web as Facilitators for TEL Recommender Systems

      • Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Daniela Giordano
      Pages 47-75
  3. Innovative Methods and Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. A Framework for Personalised Learning-Plan Recommendations in Game-Based Learning

      • Ioana Hulpuş, Conor Hayes, Manuel Oliveira Fradinho
      Pages 99-122
    3. An Approach for an Affective Educational Recommendation Model

      • Olga C. Santos, Jesus G. Boticario, Ángeles Manjarrés-Riesco
      Pages 123-143
    4. The Case for Preference-Inconsistent Recommendations

      • Christina Schwind, Jürgen Buder
      Pages 145-157
    5. Further Thoughts on Context-Aware Paper Recommendations for Education

      • Tiffany Y. Tang, Pinata Winoto, Gordon McCalla
      Pages 159-173
  4. Platforms and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
    2. Towards a Social Trust-Aware Recommender for Teachers

      • Soude Fazeli, Hendrik Drachsler, Francis Brouns, Peter Sloep
      Pages 177-194
    3. ALEF: From Application to Platform for Adaptive Collaborative Learning

      • Mária Bieliková, Marián Šimko, Michal Barla, Jozef Tvarožek, Martin Labaj, Róbert Móro et al.
      Pages 195-225
    4. Two Recommending Strategies to Enhance Online Presence in Personal Learning Environments

      • Samuel Nowakowski, Ivana Ognjanović, Monique Grandbastien, Jelena Jovanovic, Ramo Šendelj
      Pages 227-249
    5. Recommendations from Heterogeneous Sources in a Technology Enhanced Learning Ecosystem

      • Alejandro Fernández, Mojisola Erdt, Ivan Dackiewicz, Christoph Rensing
      Pages 251-265
    6. COCOON CORE: CO-author REcommendations Based on Betweenness Centrality and Interest Similarity

      • Rory L. L. Sie, Bart Jan van Engelen, Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Peter B. Sloep
      Pages 267-282
    7. Scientific Recommendations to Enhance Scholarly Awareness and Foster Collaboration

      • Jan Petertonkoker, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Junaid Surve, Pragati Sureka
      Pages 283-306

About this book

As an area, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test socio-technical innovations that will support and enhance learning practices of individuals and organizations. Information retrieval is a pivotal activity in TEL and the deployment of recommender systems has attracted increased interest during the past years.

Recommendation methods, techniques and systems open an interesting new approach to facilitate and support learning and teaching. The goal is to develop, deploy and evaluate systems that provide learners and teachers with meaningful guidance in order to help identify suitable learning resources from a potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

Contributions address the following topics: i) user and item data that can be used to support learning recommendation systems and scenarios, ii) innovative methods and techniques for recommendation purposes in educational settings and iii) examples of educational platforms and tools where recommendations are incorporated.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“Book represents a collection of state-of-the-art contributions devoted to RSs for TEL and explores contemporary research achievements in the area. … This very interesting, well-timed volume will provide great opportunities for PhD students and newcomers to this field to continue with high-quality research efforts. The book is also interesting for master’s students who would like to acquire adequate knowledge and emergent research achievements in this field. Secondary school teachers and experienced researchers could also find this book useful and interesting.” (M. Ivanović, Computing Reviews, October, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Agro-Know, Athens, Greece

    Nikos Manouselis

  • Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Welten Institute – Research Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Hendrik Drachsler

  • Department of Computer Science, VUB & KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Katrien Verbert

  • aDeNu Research Group, Artificial Intelligence Department, Computer Science School, UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Olga C. Santos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning

  • Book Subtitle: Research Trends and Applications

  • Editors: Nikos Manouselis, Hendrik Drachsler, Katrien Verbert, Olga C. Santos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0530-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0529-4Published: 12 April 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4656-3Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-0530-0Published: 12 April 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 306

  • Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Education, general, Information Systems and Communication Service

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