@article{Wang2017, 
author = {Yuqin Wang and Bing Liang and Wen Ji and Shiwei Wang and Yiqiang Chen},
title = {An improved algorithm for personalized recommendation on MOOCs},
year = {2017},
journal = {International Journal of Crowd Science},
volume = {1},
number = {3},
pages = {186-196},
keywords = {MOOC, Collaborative filtering algorithm, Multi-attribute weight algorithm, Personalized recommendation},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1108/IJCS-08-2017-0021},
doi = {10.1108/IJCS-08-2017-0021},
abstract = {PurposeIn the past few years, millions of people started to acquire knowledge from the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs contain massive video courses produced by instructors, and learners all over the world can get access to these courses via the internet. However, faced with massive courses, learners often waste much time finding courses they like. This paper aims to explore the problem that how to make accurate personalized recommendations for MOOC users.Design/methodology/approachThis paper proposes a multi-attribute weight algorithm based on collaborative filtering (CF) to select a recommendation set of courses for target MOOC users.FindingsThe recall of the proposed algorithm in this paper is higher than both the traditional CF and a CF-based algorithm – uncertain neighbors’ collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm. The higher the recall is, the more accurate the recommendation result is.Originality/valueThis paper reflects the target users’ preferences for the first time by calculating separately the weight of the attributes and the weight of attribute values of the courses.}
}