A Web-based Recommendation System for Engineering Education e-Learning Systems

Thorsten Sommer, Ursula Bach, Anja Richert, Sabina Jeschke

2014

Abstract

Today there is a flood of e-learning and e-learning related solutions for engineering education. It is at least a time consuming task for a teacher to find an e-learning system, which matches their requirements. To assist teachers with this information overload, a web-based recommendation system for related e-learning solutions is under development to support teachers in the field of engineering education to find a matching e-learning system within minutes. Because the e-learning market is subject of very fast changes, an agile engineering process is used to ensure the capability to react on these changes. To solve the challenges of this project, an own user-flow visual programming language and an algorithm are under development. A special software stack is chosen to accelerate the development. Instead of classical back-office software to administer and maintain the project, a web-based approach is used – even for a complex editor. The determining of the necessary catalog of related solutions within ``real-time'' is based on big data technologies, data mining methods and statistically text analysis.

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Sommer T., Bach U., Richert A. and Jeschke S. (2014). A Web-based Recommendation System for Engineering Education e-Learning Systems . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-020-8, pages 367-373. DOI: 10.5220/0004930203670373


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@conference{csedu14,
author={Thorsten Sommer and Ursula Bach and Anja Richert and Sabina Jeschke},
title={A Web-based Recommendation System for Engineering Education e-Learning Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={367-373},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004930203670373},
isbn={978-989-758-020-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - A Web-based Recommendation System for Engineering Education e-Learning Systems
SN - 978-989-758-020-8
AU - Sommer T.
AU - Bach U.
AU - Richert A.
AU - Jeschke S.
PY - 2014
SP - 367
EP - 373
DO - 10.5220/0004930203670373