TY - JOUR
T1 - What do you recommend? Implementation and analyses of collaborative information filtering of web resources for education
AU - Recker, Mimi M.
AU - Walker, Andrew
AU - Lawless, Kimberly
N1 - Funding Information:
* We thank the participants in our studies. This work reported in this paper was partially supported by a grant from Utah State University and the National Science Foundation (NSF DUE-0085855). † All figures and appendices may be found at http://www.isspecissue.uconn.edu
PY - 2003/7
Y1 - 2003/7
N2 - This article examines results from one pilot study and two empirical studies of a collaborative filtering (CF) system applied in educational settings. CF is a popular technology in electronic commerce, which leverages the interests of entire communities to provide targeted, personalized recommendations of interesting products or resources to individuals. In electronic commerce, entertainment, and related domains, CF has proven an accurate and reliable tool; yet educational applications remain limited. From analyses of data from these three studies, we believe that CF holds promise in education not only for the purposes of helping learners and educators find useful resources for learning, but as a means of bringing together people with similar interests and beliefs, and possibly as an aid to the learning process itself.
AB - This article examines results from one pilot study and two empirical studies of a collaborative filtering (CF) system applied in educational settings. CF is a popular technology in electronic commerce, which leverages the interests of entire communities to provide targeted, personalized recommendations of interesting products or resources to individuals. In electronic commerce, entertainment, and related domains, CF has proven an accurate and reliable tool; yet educational applications remain limited. From analyses of data from these three studies, we believe that CF holds promise in education not only for the purposes of helping learners and educators find useful resources for learning, but as a means of bringing together people with similar interests and beliefs, and possibly as an aid to the learning process itself.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1024686010318
DO - 10.1023/A:1024686010318
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038167274
SN - 0020-4277
VL - 31
SP - 299
EP - 316
JO - Instructional Science
JF - Instructional Science
IS - 4-5
ER -