Evaluating collaborative filtering recommendations inside large learning object repositories

doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2012.07.004

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Evaluating collaborative filtering recommendations inside large learning object repositories

2013-01-01

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Cechinel, Cristian *

Miguel‐Ángel Sicilia

Salvador Sánchez‐Alonso

Elena García‐Barriocanal

DOI：10.1016/j.ipm.2012.07.004

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Collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms are techniques used by recommender systems to predict the utility of items for users based on the similarity among their preferences and the preferences of other users. The enormous growth of learning objects on the internet and the availability of preferences of usage by the community of users in the existing learning object repositories (LORs) have opened the possibility of testing the efficiency of CF algorithms on recommending learning materials to the users of these communities. In this paper we evaluated recommendations of learning resources generated by different well known memory-based CF algorithms using two databases (with implicit and explicit ratings) gathered from the popular MERLOT repository. We have also contrasted the results of the generated recommendations with several existing endorsement mechanisms of the repository to explore possible relations among them. Finally, the recommendations generated by the different algorithms were compared in order to evaluate whether or not they were overlapping. The results found here can be used as a starting point for future studies that account for the specific context of learning object repositories and the different aspects of preference in learning resource selection. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

Collaborative filtering evaluation

Learning object repositories

Recommender systems

Learning objects

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