Context-Aware Hybrid Recommender System for Teachers within MEMORAe SoIS

In the contemporary educational context, teachers are confronted with the challenge of efficiently managing and utilizing a plethora of heterogeneous pedagogical resources across multiple digital platforms and sources, while simultaneously fostering collaboration in a dynamic educational collaborative environment. This challenge is further amplified by the increasing reliance on digital tools, which often operate in isolation, thereby limiting effective resource sharing and retrieval. To address these challenges, this paper explores the integration of a context-aware pedagogical resources recommender system for teachers within an educational collaborative environment. The paper begins with an identification of the necessity for an integrated approach that connects multiple information systems in order to support resource management and enhance collaborative practices. These are established as a foundation for integration within MEMORAe, a collaborative system of information systems, which employs ontologies for the organisation of heterogeneous resources from different systems and leverages collaborative knowledge sharing. Our integration approach employs the use of MEMORAe to address three pivotal challenges: the structuring of resources, the utilization of context information and the facilitation of collaboration.