Personalization in distributed e-learning environments

Personalized support for learners becomes even more important, when e-Learning takes place in open and dynamic learning and information networks. This paper shows how to realize personalized learning support in distributed learning environments based on Semantic Web technologies. Our approach fills the existing gap between current adaptive educational systems with well-established personalization functionality, and open, dynamic learning repository networks. We propose a service-based architecture for establishing personalized e-Learning, where personalization functionality is provided by various web-services. A Personal Learning Assistant integrates personalization services and other supporting services, and provides the personalized access to learning resources in an e-Learning network. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information storage and retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval--query formulation; H.3.4 [Systems and Software]: [Distributed systems, Information netw...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Peter Dolog, Nicola Henze, Wolfgang Nejdl, Michael Sintek
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Learning Repository Networks, Personalized Learning Support, Well-established Personalization Functionality, WWW 2004