Linking open course wares and open education resources: creating an effective search and recommendation system
Author(s) -
Brett E. Shelton,
Joel Duffin,
Yuxuan Wang,
Justin Ball
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
procedia computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 76
ISSN - 1877-0509
DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2010.08.012
Subject(s) - computer science , open educational resources , world wide web , open education , open source , recommender system , resource (disambiguation) , digital library , educational resources , personalized search , open research , multimedia , data science , personalization , software , art , computer network , pedagogy , psychology , literature , poetry , programming language
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
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