Patent ID: 8457544
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. A recommender system for making recommendations in educating students, the system comprising a processor executing a series of programmable instructions for: receiving, via an input system, a recommendation request for at least one current student; accessing a data storage facility storing student data, the student data including attributes associated with a plurality of current students and predecessor students, wherein at least one attribute associated with each predecessor student includes at least one educational resource used with the predecessor student; receiving at least one constraint and a weight value for applying to the at least one constraint, wherein the at least one constraint indicating which attribute to use for determining sameness between students, and the weight value indicating a strength of the attribute in making the determination of the sameness; clustering, via a processor, a first group of students into clusters based on the sameness, wherein the first group of students comprises a first one of predecessor students and current students; the clustering including: mapping, via the processor, a second one of the predecessor and current students to the first group of students, the mapping including: