Smart e-course recommender based on learning styles

Abstract

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,

Personality and Recommender Systems

“…?? ), models of learning styles have been used to recommend course material to students [17]. An example is the Felder and Silverman Learning Style Model [20] which measures four factors: active/ reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal and sequential/global.…”

A Systematic Review of Recommender Systems in Education

“…The various type of students involved in the design of RS is summarized in the table 4. Online students [32], [43], [51], [18], [42], [46], [58], [39], [26], [38], [61], [21], [37], [34] 2 Regular university/college students [23], [49], [15], [8], [17], [52]…”

Educational Recommender Systems: An Overview and Guidelines for Further Research and Development / Obrazovni sustavi preporučivanja: pregled stanja sa smjernicama za daljnja istraživanja i razvoj

“…The consequence of the implementation of Web 2.0 approaches in education has resulted in shifting focus from e-learning systems as supporting tools for e-learning to the users of these systems as a starting point for organizing e-learning. Different styles of teaching and learning (El-Bishouty et al, 2014;Felder & Silverman, 1988) as well as new learning tools that arose with the development of Web 2.0 technologies (such as YouTube, Diigo, SlideShare etc.) generated a need for individualization of the learning process in accordance with the needs of individual learners.…”