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Improving Student Mobility Through Automated Mapping of Similar Courses

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Internationalization is a global trend of society development. In order to get on board with this trend, universities are making great efforts to create possibilities for students to participate in mobility and exchange programs and learn from others. Students’ decision to take this great step get out of their comfort zone and manage their stay in an unknown environment depends on many influencing factors, the most important one being a smooth recognition process of the study period and credits earned abroad. SCoRe4Mobility is a tool supposed to help students and responsible people at the home university to find similar courses at other universities and make the selection of the most compatible destination for mobility easier.

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  • Mobility
  • Course comparison
  • Natural language processing
  • Latent semantic analysis

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This work has been supported in part by Croatian Science Foundation under project number IP-2019-04-5824.

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    Martina Tomičić Furjan, Bogdan Okreša Djuric & Tomislav Peharda

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Tomičić Furjan, M., Okreša Djuric, B., Peharda, T. (2022). Improving Student Mobility Through Automated Mapping of Similar Courses. In: Karagiannis, D., Lee, M., Hinkelmann, K., Utz, W. (eds) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93547-4_22

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