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Toward a Hybrid Recommender System for E-learning Personnalization Based on Data Mining Techniques

JOIV : International Journal on Informatics Visualization

Personalized courseware authoring based on recommender system, which is the process of automatic learning objects selecting and sequencing, is recognized as one of the most interesting research field in intelligent web-based education. Since the learner’s profile of each learner is different from one to another, we must fit learning to the different needs of learners. In fact from the knowledge of the learner’s profile, it is easier to recommend a suitable set of learning objects to enhance the learning process. In this paper we describe a new adaptive learning system-LearnFitII, which can automatically adapt to the dynamic preferences of learners. This system recognizes different patterns of learning style and learners’ habits through testing the psychological model of learners and mining their server logs. Firstly, the device proposed a personalized learning scenario to deal with the cold start problem by using the Felder and Silverman’s model. Next, it analyzes the habits and the...

An Automatic and Dynamic Approach for Personalized Recommendation of Learning Objects Considering Students Learning Styles: An Experimental Analysis

Informatics in Education, 2016

Content personalization in educational systems is an increasing research area. Studies show that students tend to have better performances when the content is customized according to his/her preferences. One important aspect of students particularities is how they prefer to learn. In this context, students learning styles should be considered, due to the importance of this feature to the adaptivity process in such systems. Thus, this work presents an efficient approach for personalization of the teaching process based on learning styles. Our approach is based on an expert system that implements a set of rules which classifies learning objects according to their teaching style, and then automatically filters learning objects according to students' learning styles. The best adapted learning objects are ranked and recommended to the student. Preliminary experiments suggest promising results.

Smart e-course recommender based on learning styles

Journal of Computers in Education, 2014

A student's learning style is the approach for learning that best allows the student to gather and to understand knowledge in a specific manner. Providing students with learning materials and activities that fit to their learning styles seems to have high potential to make learning easier for them. This research aims at providing teachers with recommendations on how to best extend their existing e-courses in learning management systems to accommodate more students with different learning styles. A smart e-course recommender tool has been developed for this purpose, which analyzes the e-courses with respect to their support levels for different students' learning styles, recommends learning objects to be added to the courses, and visualizes the recommendations and the improvement in the course support level for students' with different learning styles. The experimental results indicate that the tool has the ability to recommend suitable learning objects that,

A Personalized E-Learning Based on Recommender System

International Journal of Learning and Teaching, 2016

Personalized E-learning based on recommender system is recognized as one of the most interesting research field in the education and teaching in this last decade, since, the learning style is specific with each student. In fact from the knowledge his/her learning style; it is easier to recommend a learning scenario builds around a collection of the most adequate learning objects to give a better return on the educational level. This work focuses on the design of a personalized E-learning system based on a psychological model of Felder and Solomon and the collaborative filtering techniques. Using the learner profile, the device proposes a personalize learning scenario by selecting the most appropriate learning objects. 

Automatic Personalization in E-Learning Based on Recommendation Systems: An Overview

In this paper, we describe an automatic personalization approach aiming to provide online automatic recommendations for active learners without requiring their explicit feedback. Recommended learning resources are computed based on the current learner's recent navigation history, as well as exploiting similarities and dissimilarities among learners' preferences and educational content. The proposed framework for building automatic recommendations in e-learning platforms is composed of two modules: an off-line module which pre-processes data to build learner and content models, and an online module which uses these models on-the-fly to recognize the students' needs and goals, and predict a recommendation list. Recommended learning objects are obtained by using a range of recommendation strategies based mainly on content based filtering and collaborative filtering approaches, each applied separately or in combination.

An Architecture for Recommendation of Courses in E-learning

International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science, 2017

Over the last few years, the face of traditional learning has changed significantly, due to the emergence of the web. Consequently several learning systems have emerged such as computer-based learning, web-based learning among others, meeting different kinds of educational needs of the learners and educators as well. E-learning systems allow educators, distribute information, create content material, prepare assignments, engage in discussions, and manage distance classes among others. They accumulate a huge amount of data as a result of learner's interaction with the site. This data can be used to find students' learning pattern based on which appropriate courses could be recommended to them. However existing approaches of recommending courses to learner offer the same course to all the learners irrespective of their knowledge and skill level which results in decreasing their academic performance. This paper proposes an architecture for the recommendation of courses to a learner based on his/her profile. The profile of a learner is created by applying k-means algorithm to learner's interaction data in moodle. The results show that the non active learners should not be recommended advanced courses if they have obtained poor marks and are not active in the concern course. In the initial stage we discover learners' performance in data mining course which will further be extended to other courses as well.

Recommendation system for e-learning based on personality type and learning style

Current e-learning management systems contain a large collection of data collected from multiple sources but the biggest challenge these systems face is providing quality-related content to users and reducing the time users spend searching for this content. Also, with a difference in the reading ability, not many students can take the same learning track to understand a particular content. Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is an elearning concept that allows users to manage their learning environment both in terms of content and process. However, the main problems with the use of PLE in grade reading are the excessive knowledge and difficulty in finding appropriate reading content for students. As users of the e-commerce system, some students may feel overwhelmed by the choice of available content that is offered by the e-commerce program there, not always in line with their reading style. This is important as a psychologist suggests that students need to learn according to their style of reading. Therefore, we can recommend e-learning materials to the user depending on the user's style and learning style.

A Personalized Course Recommender System for E-Learning

International Journal of Networks and Systems, 2019

In recent years, the internet has witnessed an aggressive growth in the amount of learning resources. This explosion of learning resources on the internet results in expanded interest for online learning resources by learners in e-learning environment. With this expansion of online learning resources, learners are experiencing challenges in deciding learning resources that are valuable and significant to their learning needs. Recommender systems can overcome this issue by filtering out inappropriate learning resources and automatically recommending suitable resources to the learners according to their interests. In this paper we are focusing on a course recommender system in an e-learning platform which tries to intelligently recommend courses to the learners based on their interest. This recommendation approach is used to provide learners some suggestions when they have trouble in choosing correct courses. It also allows us to study the behavior of learner regarding their course selection and suggests the best combination of courses in which the learners are interested.

E-Learning personalization based on Dynamic learners' preference

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology, 2011

Personalized e-learning implementation is recognized one of the most interesting research areas in the distance web-based education. Since the learning style of each learner is different we must to fit elearning to the different needs of learners. This paper discusses teaching strategies matching with learner's personality using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tools. Based on an innovative approach, a framework for building an adaptive learning management system by considering learner's preference has been developed. The learner's profile is initialized according to the results obtained by the student in the index of learning styles questionnaire and then fine-tuned during the course of the interaction using the Bayesian model. Moreover, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of our approach. The result reveals the system effectiveness for which it appears that the proposed approach may be promising.

IRJET- Personalize Recommendation Approach for Web Search in E-Learning

IRJET, 2020

Nowadays, new technologies and the fast increase of the Internet have made access to information easier for all kinds of people, building new challenges for education when utilizing the Internet as a tool. E-Learning provide students with choices and initiative, however, results in much challenge in matching the needs of students with different backgrounds and learning preferences due to information overload. Facing diverse learning resources, students have difficulties in making appropriate choices to meet their learning objectives. One of the best examples is how to personalize an E-Learning system according to the learner's requirements and knowledge level in a learning process. This system should adapt the learning experience, according to the goals of the individual learner. In this paper, we present a recommender E-Learning approach which utilizes recommendation techniques for educational data mining specifically for identifying E-Learners' learning preferences. E-Learning recommendation system helps learners to make choices without sufficient personal experience of the alternatives, and it is considerably requisite in this information explosion age. In our study, the user-based collaborative filtering method is chosen as the primary recommendation algorithm, combined with online education. We analyze the requirement of a web based E-Learning recommendation system. The proposed system is based on four modules, namely Web search Module, student Profiling Module, Behavioral Activity analyzer module, recommendation module. The web search Module is a way of searching anything that user or student wants from Google search engine. A student Profiling Module takes Students all Personal and Academic Information, Behavioral Activity analyzer module is used to identify learners learning preferences and all activities which are done at the time of web surfing by students and a recommendation module which pre-processes data to create a suitable recommendation list and predicting the student interest domain. After recommendation process we calculate the Knowledge Point (KP) of particular student based on KP value it categories the student into three levels 1. Beginner 2. Intermediate 3. Master. Several techniques such as classification, clustering and association rules are used to improve personalization with filtering techniques to provide a recommendation and assist learners to improve their performance.