Linking open course wares and open education resources: creating an effective search and recommendation system
| Published | January 2010 |
| Type of work | Proceedings Paper |
| Journal | Procedia Computer Science Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 2865 - 2870 |
| Publisher | Elsevier Science Bv |
| Country | Spain, Netherlands, Europe |
ABSTRACT
With a growing number of digital libraries and other open education repositories being made available, open education specific recommender and search tools play an important role in helping teachers and learners find relevant resources. This paper discusses the design and evaluation of Folksemantic, a system that integrates OpenCourseWare search, Open Educational Resource "more like this" recommendations, and personalized recommendation functionality into a single open source project. Ongoing research is described.| Keywords | digital libraries · open education · OpenCourseWare · recommender system |
| Published at | Amsterdam |
| Language | eng |
| ISSN | 18770509 |
| Rights | by-nc-nd/3.0 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.procs.2010.08.012 |
| URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705091000325X |
| Other information | Procedia Computer Science |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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