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Adaptation “in the Wild”: Ontology-Based Personalization of Open-Corpus Learning Material

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21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills (EC-TEL 2012)

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Teacher and students can use WWW as a limitless source of learning material for nearly any subject. Yet, such abundance of content comes with the problem of finding the right piece at the right time. Conventional adaptive educational systems cannot support personalized access to open-corpus learning material as they rely on manually constructed content models. This paper presents an approach to this problem that does not require intervention from a human expert. The approach has been implemented in an adaptive system that recommends students supplementary reading material and adaptively annotates it. The results of the evaluation experiment have demonstrated several significant effects of using the system on students’ learning.

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  1. DFKI, Center for e-Learning Technology, Campus D3.2, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Sergey Sosnovsky

  2. School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 135, N. Bellefield ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    I. -Han Hsiao & Peter Brusilovsky

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  1. CASS School of Education and Communities, University of East London (UEL), Stratford Campus, Water Lane, E15 4LZ, London, UK

    Andrew Ravenscroft

  2. Knowledge Management Institute and Know-Center GmbH, Graz University of Technology (TUG), Inffeldgasse 21a,, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Stefanie Lindstaedt

  3. Departamento Ingenieria Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30,, 28911, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos

  4. Information and Communitations Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,, Roc Boronat 138, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Davinia Hernández-Leo

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Sosnovsky, S., Hsiao, I.H., Brusilovsky, P. (2012). Adaptation “in the Wild”: Ontology-Based Personalization of Open-Corpus Learning Material. In: Ravenscroft, A., Lindstaedt, S., Kloos, C.D., Hernández-Leo, D. (eds) 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills. EC-TEL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33263-0_38

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