TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking OpenCourseWares and open education resources
T2 - Creating an effective search and recommendation system
AU - Shelton, Brett E.
AU - Duffin, Joel
AU - Wang, Yuxuan
AU - Ball, Justin
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Digital libraries
KW - Open education
KW - Recommender system, opencourseware, oer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650245370&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2010.08.011
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2010.08.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78650245370
VL - 1
SP - 2859
EP - 2864
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
IS - 2
ER -