Providing recommendations for communities of learners in MOOCs ecosystems

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Highlights:

• A content-based recommendation using topic modeling and labeling techniques.

• Recommendation of part of courses from multiple providers to support learners.

• Implementation of a system with real data from providers, enabling the expansion.

• The model’s number of topics and document labels are automatically defined.

• Three quali-quantitative experiments confirm the system’s effectiveness.

摘要

•A content-based recommendation using topic modeling and labeling techniques.•Recommendation of part of courses from multiple providers to support learners.•Implementation of a system with real data from providers, enabling the expansion.•The model’s number of topics and document labels are automatically defined.•Three quali-quantitative experiments confirm the system’s effectiveness.

论文关键词:Online education systems,Content-based recommendation,Topic modeling,Non-negative matrix factorization,Unsupervised machine learning

论文评审过程:Received 19 August 2021, Revised 2 May 2022, Accepted 3 May 2022, Available online 20 May 2022, Version of Record 2 June 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117510