Recommending courses to students is a fundamental and also challenging issue in the traditional university environment. Not exactly like course recommendation in MOOCs, the selection and recommendation for higher education is a non-trivial task as it depends on many factors that students need to consider. Although many studies on this topic have…

Recommendation systems need a deeper understanding of users and their motivations to improve recommendation quality and provide more personalized suggestions. This is especially true in the education domain, the more about the student is known, the more useful recommendations can be made. However, although many studies on the course recommendation…