Designing a collaborative group project recommender for an e-learning system

Abstract

Collaborative work on project aids students to combine their personal expertise, experience and ability to achieve a shared work goal. However, a collaborative working environment that is appropriate for some students may be not suitable for other students. Students tend to have different interests, preferences, backgrounds or even knowledge. There is limited support for them that satisfies individual student's needs in the collaborative process. In this paper, we investigated the needs of the students for the recommended project, group members and tools communication for group project, aiming at collecting the requirements for the implementation of the research environment. Additionally, we propose a framework for recommendation of collaborative project work to function within a social e-Learning System. Moreover, we are proposing the architecture of the system.