Title :
Supporting Teachers to Retrieve and Select Learning Objects for Personalized Courses in the Moodle_LS Environment
Author :
Limongelli, Carla ; Miola, Alfonso ; Sciarrone, Filippo ; Temperini, Marco
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Autom., Roma Tre Univ., Rome, Italy
Abstract :
In this paper we present a comprehensive framework supporting the tasks of defining, retrieving, and importing Learning Objects (LOs) for personalized courses. It is partially implemented in a Moodle-based personalization system, where the instructional designer is guided through: 1) a theoretical specification of the needed LOs; 2) a retrieval function of actual LOs, by automatically querying standard-compliant repositories; 3) an analysis of such items, to import those selected by him, also adding metadata relevant to the personalization system, at hand. This work overcomes some well known shortcomings of the Moodle system in supporting retrieval of learning material in a personalization context.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational courses; public domain software; query processing; Internet-based technologies; Moodle-based personalization system; Moodle_LS environment; distance learning; learning object definition; learning object import; learning object retrieval; learning object selection; open source learning management systems; personalized courses; teacher support; technology-enhanced education; technology-enhanced learning; Buildings; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Least squares approximation; Materials; Standards; Adaptive Personalized and Context-Aware Technology-enhanced Learning & Education; Learning; Systems Environments and Architectures;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1642-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2012.110
