1. Educational recommender systems and their application in lifelong learning.
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Dascalu, Maria-Iuliana, Bodea, Constanta-Nicoleta, Mihailescu, Monica Nastasia, Tanase, Elena Alice, and Ordoñez de Pablos, Patricia
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ALGORITHMS , *ALTERNATIVE education , *CONTINUING education , *INFORMATION services , *INTERPROFESSIONAL relations , *RESEARCH funding , *ACCESS to information , *SOCIAL media - Abstract
The almost unlimited access to educational information plethora came with a drawback: finding meaningful material is not a straightforward task anymore. Recommender algorithms can be used to make smart decisions in complex information systems and help the users decide upon useful materials; therefore, they become a promising area in academia and industry. The current paper presents a survey on educational recommender systems (RS): a set of analysis criteria are exposed and the technological specifications and challenges of each analysed system are provided, in the context of the main trends in the development of RS. Also, an ontology-based educational recommendation mechanism is proposed and its application to lifelong learning is highlighted, proving that RS can successfully support new learning paradigms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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