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Data-Driven Approach Towards a Personalized Curriculum

EasyChair Preprint 309

6 pagesDate: June 29, 2018

Abstract

Course selection can be a daunting task, especially for newer students. Sub-optimal selection can lead to bad performance of students and increase the dropout rate. Given the availability of historic data about student performances, it is possible to aid students in the selection of appropriate courses. Here, we propose a method to compose a personalized curriculum for a given student. We develop a modular approach that combines a context-aware grade prediction with statistical information on the temporal ordering of courses. This allows for meaningful course recommendations, both for fresh and senior students. We demonstrate the approach using the data of the Computer Science Bachelor students at Saarland University.

Keyphrases: Personalized Curriculum, Recommender Systems, collaborative filtering

BibTeX entry
BibTeX does not have the right entry for preprints. This is a hack for producing the correct reference:
@booklet{EasyChair:309,
  author    = {Michael Backenköhler and Felix Scherzinger and Adish Singla and Verena Wolf},
  title     = {Data-Driven Approach Towards a Personalized Curriculum},
  doi       = {10.29007/29gh},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 309},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2018}}
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