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In this paper we address an open key issue during the development of web-based educational systems. In particular, we provide an educational-oriented approach for building personalised e-learning environments that focuses on putting the learners' needs in the centre of the development process. Our approach proposes user centred design methodologies involving interdisciplinary teams of software developers...
A CSCL environment provides support to manage collaborative tasks. However, these systems do not usually provide the personalization features required to adapt the learning experience to the student needs, a drawback that can affect the collaboration objective and ultimately a successful learning. To alleviate this disadvantage we propose an architecture that provides adaptive collaboration support...
This paper describes our approach to develop Computer Adaptive Testing functionality for different Learning Management Systems following educational standards and specifications (defined by the IMSConsortium). This functionality can be integrated into standard-based personalized learning routes and is being developed as a Service Oriented Architecture(SOA) to support its generality and applicability.
Active modeling is required in learning settings to cope with the dynamic evolution of the knowledge, since learners competences evolves over time as they participate in the course activities. Moreover, one of the main issues in a competence based eLearning process is to deliver personalized instructional designs adjusted to both 1) intrinsic characteristics of users (i.e. learning styles) and 2)...
Education and work are inextricably linked to the peoplepsilas lives in our modern society and they are the main agents for a successful social integration, but at the same time they can become barriers for the inclusion of the disabled. The technology can be used to overcome these barriers offering an adaptive layer that can cope with the needs of the people with disabilities. Our current research...
When students are responsible for their own collaborative learning process, they need information on collaboration to manage the process. We note that collaborative environments fail to provide users with information on the collaboration process. This research proposes an open collaborative learning experience design that provides learners with an environment where they can manage the collaboration...
Personalized and inclusive eLearning scenarios in scalable open architectures feature several challenges. In particular, to manage, what, when, how and why offering recommendations to users in these scenarios we have designed a recommendations model and a multi-agent architecture. The paper presents the motivations of our work for intelligent support in inclusive eLearning, introduces the approach...
Our work is focused on alleviating the workload for designers of adaptive courses on the complexity task of authoring adaptive learning designs adjusted to specific user characteristics and the user context. We propose an adaptation platform that consists in a set of intelligent agents where each agent carries out an independent adaptation task. The agents apply machine learning techniques to support...
In order to support users in inclusive lifelong learning scenarios, we propose a model of recommendations that applies to the particularities of these scenarios and intends to improve the learning performance. The goal of our model is threefold: (i) allow the management of recommendations at design time, (ii) explain on the user interface why each recommendation has been offered, (iii) request explicit...
In this paper we present research works we are addressing in EU4ALL project (IST-2006-034778) to enable Higher Education (HE) institutions to support and attend the accessibility needs of their students. This approach is based on integrating learning and management of the learning in terms of workflows to support the different types of existing scenarios with a twofold objective. First, involving...
The technology is expected to attend the learning needs of the students in a personalized and inclusive way. Our approach relies on combining design and runtime adaptations for all with a pervasive use of standards and specifications. However, there is currently insufficient support provided by the specifications. For this reason, we propose a multi-agent architecture to produce dynamic recommendations...
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