Recommendations from Heterogeneous Sources in a Technology Enhanced Learning Ecosystem
Key: FEDR14-1
Author: Alejandro Fernandez, Mojisola Erdt, Ivan Dackiewicz, Christoph Rensing
Date: March 2014
Kind: @incollection
Publisher: Springer
Book title: Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning: Research Trends & Applications
Abstract: A Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) ecosystem is a kind of Digital Ecosystem formed by independent platforms combined and used by learners to support their learning. Related work shows that recommendations in TEL can support learners and that in TEL ecosystems, learners do use different platforms. We therefore pursue the goal to enable recommendations across different platforms by exploiting the synergies between them to benefit learners. However, building such cross-platform recommender systems poses new and unique technological challenges for developers. In this paper, we discuss the challenges faced and present a framework, with a running example, for the development of cross-platform recommender systems for TEL ecosystems. The framework decouples the development of the recommender system from the evolution of the specific platforms and allows the integration of different recommendation algorithms by combining graph-based algorithms. As proof of concept, the framework was effectively applied and evaluated to develop a cross-platform recommender system in a TEL ecosystem comprising Moodle as the Learning Management System, and MediaWiki customized as Learning Object Repository. For future work, the integration of different recommendation algorithms and a user study on the benefits of recommendations from different sources in a learning scenario is planned.
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