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ADAPTIVE LEARNING OBJECTS SEQUENCING FOR COMPETENCE-BASED LEARNING. Pythagoras Karampiperis , Demetrios Samspon e-mail: { pythk , sampson}@iti.gr.
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ADAPTIVE LEARNING OBJECTS SEQUENCING FOR COMPETENCE-BASED LEARNING Pythagoras Karampiperis, Demetrios Samspon e-mail: {pythk, sampson}@iti.gr This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0 or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Outline • Description • AEHS Definition • Problem Definition • Applying AEH for Competence-based Learning • Abstract Design Layers • Experiment • Conclusions
Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems • An AEHS is defined as a Quadruple (KS, UM, OBS, AM) with the notation [Henze and Nejdl, 2003]: • the Knowledge Space (KS), that contains (a) educational resources and associated descriptive information (e.g. metadata attributes, usage attributes etc.) and (b) the structure of the domain knowledge in-hand • the User Model (UM), that describes information and data about an individual learner • the Observations (OBS) which are the result of monitoring learner’s interactions with the AEHS at runtime • the Adaptation Model (AM), that contains the rules for describing the runtime behavior of the AEHS
Problem Definition • Adaptive educational hypermedia systems (AEHS) bare the potential to provide personalized learning experiences based on individual’s knowledge, skills, and competencies. • However, so far they have been confined in the provision of knowledge resources that are adaptively selected based on the structure of concepts a domain model. • Thus, in this paper • we analyze the architecture of AEHS and identify the new components needed for the provision of adaptive competence-based learning experiences • present a methodology for adaptive sequencing addressing the needs of the competence-based AEH architecture
Common AEHS Abstract Design Layers AHAM Model (De Bra, Houben, Wu, 1999) LAOS Model (Cristea, De Mooij, 2003)
New Abstract Design Layers • Learner Adaptation Layer At this layer the learning path for a specific learner is selected from the LPG based on • Educational characteristics of media items (stored in metadata records) • Learner preference information (stored in the learner profile – User Model)
Experiment Setup • Competence Ontology: EuroPass Language Passport • 3 Complex Competencies • 5 Simple Competencies • about 300 language topics
The EuroPass Language Passport • The Europass Language Passport • a European common model for language competencies, developed by the Council of Europe as part of the European Language Portfolio • designed to enhance the motivation of individuals to improve their ability of communicating in different languages. • supports the definition of individuals’ language skills on a six-level scale • defines a competence ontology consisting of 5 simple competencies and 3 complex competencies • each of these competencies is associated (directly or indirectly) with a list of language topics
Experiment Setup • Evaluation Criterion (based on Kendall’s Tau)
Conclusions • Argued on the need updating the architecture of AEHS to better support the provision of adaptive competence-based learning experiences • Analyzed the design process of AEHS and identified how this process could be refined to reflect the new AEH architecture • Proposed a concrete methodology for adaptive LO sequencing for competence-based learning • Presented simulation results proving the feasibility of this approach
Contact Details Demetrios Sampson sampson@iti.gr http://www.ask.iti.gr Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, 42, Arkadias Street,Athens,GR-15234,Greece and Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus 150, Androutsou Street, Piraeus, GR-18534 Greece