The design of web-based personal collaborative learning system (WBPCLS) for computer science courses

Abstract

The Web-based collaborative learning system (WBCLS), which is considered a highly effective teaching method by most theory researchers, could not achieve the goals that can be obtained by traditional in-class teaching method in the teaching practice. Therefore, some problems that are harbored in the operational process of the current popular WBCLS were pointed out. In order to overcome problems mentioned above, a new framework for Computer Science Courses, which support the personal learning, was proposed and the algorithms about the intelligent course recommendation, optimal group formation, and the optimal collaborative partner discovery are discussed in this paper. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.