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Towards an Enriched LMS for B-Learning Environment: Students’ Profiles

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The case study of this chapter sheds light upon the students’ profiles within the b-learning context and serves as the complementary chunk to the teachers’ profiles presented in the previous chapter.

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  1. Department of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Sofia B. Dias & José A. Diniz

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

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Dias, S.B., Diniz, J.A., Hadjileontiadis, L.J. (2014). Towards an Enriched LMS for B-Learning Environment: Students’ Profiles. In: Towards an Intelligent Learning Management System Under Blended Learning. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02078-5_9

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