Do you want to connect?: Recommendation strategies for building Personal Learning Networks

Abstract

Recommender systems on social networking sites make users of these sites aware of various resources and people that otherwise they may have missed. In Personal Learn- ing Networks, recommendation is used to create new connections by creating oppor- tunities for interaction and conversation between learners. This article describes the outcomes of a workshop held at the PLE Conference 2013 on the design of recommender systems and on the concepts that determine how they work.