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IJERT-An Ontology Approach To Represent User Profiles In E-Learning

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2013

https://www.ijert.org/an-ontology-approach-to-represent-user-profiles-in-e-learning https://www.ijert.org/research/an-ontology-approach-to-represent-user-profiles-in-e-learning-IJERTV2IS2433.pdf E-Learning is a process in which electronic medium is used to access the defined set of applications and processes. In E-Learning environment, studies of the behaviors of the learner are essential to provide an adaptive E-Learning system. Ontology has the potential to play an important role in representing an area of knowledge. This paper proposes ontology to classify learner profile based on their activities and personal information. Two specific examples were designed to show the automatic classification of learner profile. Experiments were performed using the OWL reasoner Pellet and editor Protégé 4.2 beta version. The results of our performance evaluation show that the ontology is able to classify and locate learner profile, according to the desired area, age, interest, profession etc.

Using Ontology for Providing Content Recommendation Based on Learning Styles inside E-learning

2014 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation, 2014

E-Learning as one of the learning support facilities provides various content types and interaction models inside. This wide range of content types inside e-Learning can be used for accommodating differences in learning styles among the students. In this research, we develop concept mapping between student characteristics and categories by Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model and appropriate content inside a Moodle-based e-Learning. This mapping is represented in the ontology and then implemented in Moodle-based e-Learning system for giving content recommendation to students based on their learning styles. There are some concepts that become basic definition of learning styles and e-Learning contents, and also some rules that is used for inferring content recommendation from the basic definition.

Semantic web technologies anchored in learning styles as catalysts towards personalising the learning process

International Journal of …, 2011

The evolution of telecommunications, information and multimedia technologies compel for the design of platforms that support the e-learning processes in a multimodal variety. These platforms benefit from the web resources to enhance their courses. However, the structure of the web is labyrinthine and the facilitation of the learner to the personalised content retrieval in these complex information environments is of great significance. This paper submits a method emerging from the semantic web technologies, such as metadata and ontologies, which is embedded in a constructivist socio-psycho-pedagogical model. The method personalises material based on the alignment of properties of the learning resources and the profile of the e-learners, as derived from their learning style in conjunction with other personality and demographic characteristics. An application is described using an optimistic view for future precision in information retrieval and efficient matching of the learners' requirements with the educational content.

Development of a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Based Personalised E-Learning System

2019

The major challenge of the traditional learning system is space-time restriction and it is teacher-centred. The emergence of Information Technology gave rise for e-learning systems which are characterized with the components of teacher-centred and one-size-fits-all strategy. Subsequently, the concept of personalisation with learning technology was introduced that provides adaptation of learning contents to learning requirements of the learners. Hence, this research paper develops a personalised e-learning system that matches teaching strategy with learners" learning style using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The emphasis is laid on adaptive teaching strategy and revising the teaching strategy for the purpose of increasing learners" learning performance. The mathematical model is developed for profiling learners to determine their learning style based on the MBTI questionnaire and Dynamic Bayesian Network is applied to revise the teaching strategy. The system is implemented using PHP and Wamp server and the database is designed using Structured Query Language (SQL). The developed system is tested using Undergraduate students studying Information Technology at

Ontology based E-learning framework: A personalized, adaptive and context aware model

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019

Enhancing the degree of learner productivity, one of the major challenges in E-Learning systems, may be catered through effective personalization, adaptivity and context awareness while recommending the learning contents to the learners. In this paper, an E-Learning framework has been proposed that profiles the learners, categorizes the learners based on profiles, makes personalized content recommendations and performs assessment based content adaptation. A mathematical model has been proposed for learner categorization using machine learning techniques (a hybrid of case based reasoning and neural networks). The learning contents have been annotated through CourseOntology in which three academic courses (each for language of C++, C# and JAVA) have been modeled for the learners. A dynamic rule based recommender has been presented targeting a 'relative grading system' for maximizing the learner's productivity. Performance of proposed framework has been measured in terms of accurate learner categorization, personalized recommendation of the learning contents, completeness and correctness of ontological model and overall performance improvement of learners in academic sessions of 2015, 2016 and 2017. The comparative analysis of proposed framework exhibits visibly improved results compared to prevalent approaches. These improvements are signified to the comprehensive attribute selection in learner profiling, dynamic techniques for learner categorization and effective content recommendation while ensuring personalization and adaptivity.

Ontology-based models for personalized e-learning environment

2007

Abstract. Students who use educational web-based applications aim at learning knowledge in chosen area. However, their level of knowledge and interests are different. For effective learning it is necessary to provide an individual approach to each student. Educational application should recommend students learning materials that are easily understandable according their level of knowledge and are interesting enough to keep the students' attention.

Modelling The Learner Model Based Ontology In Adaptive Learning Environment

Journal of Disruptive Learning Innovation (JODLI), 2019

Currently, the online learners are increasingly demanding more personalized learning since the web technology, and the learners have individual features of characteristics such as learning goals, experiences, interests, personality traits, learning styles, learning activities, and prior knowledge. A personalized learning process requires an adaptive learning system (ALS). In order to adapt, a learner model is required. Thus, modelling the learner model in an adaptive system environment is a key point to success in recommending the learner. The ontology-based approach was used to model the adaptive learning model in this research. Ontology is a graph structure that consists of a collection of contexts, relationships, and models which related to contexts. The ontology of the learner model enables to produce a description of learner’s properties which contains important information about domain knowledge, learning performance, interests, preference, goal, tasks, and personal traits.K...

Matching User Preferences with Learning Objects in Model Based on Semantic Web Ontologies

The e-learning contained many educational resources are generally used in learning systems like Moodle, It’s free open source software packages designed and flexible platform to create Learning Objects (LOs) and users’ accounts. The author demonstrates how to use semantic web technologies to improve online learning environments and bridge the gap between learners and LOs. The ontological construction presented here helps formalize LOs context as a complex interplay of different learning-related elements and shows how we can use semantic annotation to interrelate diverse between learner and LOs. On top of this construction, the author implemented several feedback channels for educators to improve the delivery of future Web-based learning. The particular aim of this paper was to provide a solution based in the Moodle Platform. The main idea behind the approach presented here is that ontology which can not only be useful as a learning instrument but it can also be employed to assess students’ skills. For it, each student is prompted to express his/her beliefs by building own discipline-related ontology through an application displayed in the interface of Moodle. This paper presents the ontology for an e-Learning System, which arranges metadata, and defines the relationships of metadata, which are about learning objects; belong to academic courses and user profiles. This ontology has been incorporated as a critical part of the proposed architecture. By this ontology, effective retrieval of learning content, customizing Learning Management System (LMS) is expected. Metadata used in this paper are based on current metadata standards. This ontology specified in human and machine-readable formats. In implementing it, several APIs were defined to manage the ontology. They were introduced into a typical LMS such as Moodle. Proposed ontology maps user preferences with learning content to satisfy learner requirements. These learning objects are presented to the learner based on ontological relationships. Hence it increases the usability and customizes the LMS. In conclusion, ontologies have a range of potential benefits and applications in further and higher education, including the sharing of information across e-learning systems, providing frameworks for learning object reuse, and enabling information between learner and system parts.

Integrating 'Learning style' Information into Personalized e- learning System

E-Learning environments are based on a range of delivery and collaborative services. Introducing personalized recommender system in e-Learning environments can support learning recommendations to students. The main aim for this paper is to try to increase the student's efficiency by integrating "Learning styles" information into e-learning environment to achieve the idea of personalization. Students with different goals and different backgrounds are thus treated differently by building a model of knowledge and preferences for each one to form a user modeling structure.

Semantic Information Retrieval for Personalized E-Learning

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2008. …, 2008

We present an approach for personalized retrieval in an e-learning platform, that takes advantage of semantic Web standards to represent the learning content and the user/learner profiles as ontologies, and that re-ranks search results/lectures based on how the contained terms map to these ontologies. One important aspect of our approach is the combination of an authoritatively supplied taxonomy by the colleges, with the data driven extraction (via clustering) of a taxonomy from the documents themselves, thus making it easier to adapt to different learning platforms, and making it easier to evolve with the document/lecture collection. Our experimental results show that the learner's context can be effectively used for improving the precision and recall in e-learning content retrieval, particularly by re-ranking the search results based on the learner's past activities.