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Learning contents creation supported on computer tools has triggered the scientific community for a couple of decades. However, teachers have been facing more and different challenges, namely the emergence of other delivery learning approaches besides the traditional educational settings, the diversification of the student target population, and the recognition of different ways of learning. In education domain, diverse recommender systems have been developed so far for recommending learning activities and more specifically, learning objects. This research work is focused on teaching-learning techniques recommendation to assist teachers by providing them recommendation about which teaching-learning techniques should scaffold teaching-learning activities to be carried out by students. This paper presents a recommender model sustained in diverse elements, namely, a hybrid recommender system, an association rules mechanism to infer possible combinations of teaching-learning techniques, and collaborative work among several actors in education. An evaluation is carried out and the preliminary results are very encouraging, revealing that teachers seem very enthusiastic and motivated to rethink their teaching-learning techniques when designing teaching-learning activities.
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This research has been supported in part by LIACC and GILT labs. At an earlier stage, the PROTEC advanced program of the responsibility of IPP (Instituto Politécnico do Porto) was conceived to support teachers rolled in PhD courses releasing them from teaching work.
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Mota, D., Reis, L.P., de Carvalho, C.V. (2017). A Recommender Model of Teaching-Learning Techniques. In: Oliveira, E., Gama, J., Vale, Z., Lopes Cardoso, H. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10423. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65340-2_36
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