PMID- 36718426
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20240216
IS  - 1360-2357 (Print)
IS  - 1573-7608 (Electronic)
IS  - 1360-2357 (Linking)
DP  - 2023 Jan 26
TI  - A multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach for data-driven distance 
      learning recommendations.
PG  - 1-38
LID - 10.1007/s10639-023-11589-9 [doi]
AB  - Distance learning has been adopted as an alternative learning strategy to the 
      face-to-face teaching methodology. It has been largely implemented by many 
      governments worldwide due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 
      implication in enforcing lockdown and social distancing. In emergency situations 
      distance learning is referred to as Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT). Due to this 
      dynamic, sudden shift, and scaling demand in distance learning, many challenges 
      have been accentuated. These include technological adoption, student commitments, 
      parent involvement, and teacher extra burden management, changes in the 
      organization methodology, in addition to government development of new guidelines 
      and regulations to assess, manage, and control the outcomes of distance learning. 
      The objective of this paper is to analyze the alternatives of distance learning 
      and discuss how these alternatives reflect on student academic performance and 
      retention in distance learning education. We first, examine how different 
      stakeholders make use of distance learning to achieve the learning objectives. 
      Then, we evaluate various alternatives and criteria that influence distance 
      learning, we study the correlation between them and extract the best 
      alternatives. The model we propose is a multi-criteria decision-making model that 
      assigns various scores of weights to alternatives, then the best-scored 
      alternative is passed through a recommendation model. Finally, our system 
      proposes customized recommendations to students, and teachers which will lead to 
      enhancing student academic performance. We believe that this study will serve the 
      education system and provides valuable insights and understanding of the use of 
      distance learning and its effectiveness.
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      part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or 
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      of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
FAU - Alshamsi, Aysha Meshaal
AU  - Alshamsi AM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3576-0582
AD  - Department of Information Systems and Security, College of Information 
      Technology, UAEU, Al-Ain, UAE. GRID: grid.43519.3a. ISNI: 0000 0001 2193 6666
FAU - El-Kassabi, Hadeel
AU  - El-Kassabi H
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7992-5748
AD  - Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Gina Cody School of 
      Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Canada. 
      GRID: grid.410319.e. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 8630
FAU - Serhani, Mohamed Adel
AU  - Serhani MA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7001-3710
AD  - Department of Information Systems and Security, College of Information 
      Technology, UAEU, Al-Ain, UAE. GRID: grid.43519.3a. ISNI: 0000 0001 2193 6666
AD  - Sharjah University, College of Computing and Informatics, Sharjah, UAE. GRID: 
      grid.412789.1. ISNI: 0000 0004 4686 5317
FAU - Bouhaddioui, Chafik
AU  - Bouhaddioui C
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3549-1236
AD  - Department of Analytics in the Digital Era, College of Business and Economics, 
      UAEU, Al Ain, UAE. GRID: grid.43519.3a. ISNI: 0000 0001 2193 6666
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230126
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Educ Inf Technol (Dordr)
JT  - Education and information technologies
JID - 101705199
PMC - PMC9878493
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - AHP
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - Distance learning
OT  - ERT
OT  - MCDM
OT  - Pandemic
OT  - WPM
OT  - WSM
COIS- Conflict of interestsNot Applicable.
EDAT- 2023/02/01 06:00
MHDA- 2023/02/01 06:00
PMCR- 2023/01/26
CRDT- 2023/01/31 01:51
PHST- 2022/09/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/01/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/31 01:51 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/02/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/02/01 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/26 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 11589 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10639-023-11589-9 [doi]
PST - aheadofprint
SO  - Educ Inf Technol (Dordr). 2023 Jan 26:1-38. doi: 10.1007/s10639-023-11589-9.