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Retrieving and Recommending for the Classroom: Stakeholders, Objectives, Resources, and Users

@inproceedings{Ekstrand2018RetrievingAR,
  title={Retrieving and Recommending for the Classroom: Stakeholders, Objectives, Resources, and Users},
  author={Michael D. Ekstrand and Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Katherine Landau Wright and Maria Soledad Pera},
  year={2018}
}
In this paper, we consider the promise and challenges of deploying recommendation and information retrieval technology to help teachers locate resources for use in classroom instruction. The classroom setting is a complex environment presenting a number of challenges for recommendation, due to its inherent multi-stakeholder nature, the multiple objectives that quality educational resources and experiences must simultaneously satisfy, and potential disconnect between the direct user of the… 
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