Pundit: Intelligent Recommender of Courses

In this paper the authors describe Pundit, a course recommendation and search tool at Teachers College, Columbia University. The alpha prototype employs a novel combination of data retrieval and data mining approaches to recommend courses to users based on a match between their profiles and course contents. We utilize course management system and library e-reserves data to collect information about course content that is indexed and then matched with user profiles. In conclusion, we define an evaluation function that was used to determine the quality of recommendations.