Personalized Recommendation Research in E-Learning Systems

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review the literatures which have made an explicit study on personalized recommendation in E-Learning systems. By identifying the important research areas, which are in different perspectives, firstly, filtering recommendation is introduced before the illustration of how it has been developed in E-Learning systems. Then personalized recommendation is proposed for E-Learning system. Although social network is the basic way to improve the communication efficiency with others in E-Learning system, previous studies pay less attention on this. Therefore social network analysis should be taken into consideration for the recommendation in E-Learning system for further research.