Desenvolvimento de um agente de recomendação de materiais didáticos integrado ao ambiente virtual Moodle

Abstract

This paper presents a recommendation agent that was implemented as a module for Moodle platform, aiming to help students in their questions on topics related discipline. The agent makes the recommendation of teaching materials based on the similarity between the comments posted on the forum by the student and the description of the materials made available by the teacher of the discipline. The results showed that the agent presented a great percentage of correctness in the recommendations, obtaining an average of 4.4 recommendations per student tested, which was considered good despite the problems found in the database.