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Learning Object Assembly Based on Learning Styles

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Smart Education and e-Learning 2016

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 59))

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The goal of this paper is to develop a system, referred to as the Management System for Merging Learning Objects (msMLO), which offers an approach that retrieves learning objects (LOs) based on students’ learning styles and term-based queries and produces a new outcome. The first step ranks LOs using a unified learning style model and creates better LOs by merging the top-ranked LOs. The second step maps LOs onto a hierarchy of concepts to avoid including duplicated topics in the merged LO. Fifty-six students were randomly split into experimental and control groups. The experimental group browsed the LOs retrieved by the msMLO based on the students’ learning styles, term-based queries and merge functionality, whereas the control group browsed the LOs retrieved based on the students’ learning styles and term-based queries. The results demonstrated that the experimental group improves their learning performance, thus msMLO is a promising approach.

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    Aldo Ramirez-Arellano, Juan Bory-Reyes & Luis Manuel Hernández-Simón

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Ramirez-Arellano, A., Bory-Reyes, J., Hernández-Simón, L.M. (2016). Learning Object Assembly Based on Learning Styles. In: Uskov, V., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Education and e-Learning 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39690-3_40

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