Searching for "People Like Me" in a Lifelong Learning System

The L4All system allows learners to record and share learning pathways through educational offerings, with the aim of facilitating progression from Secondary Education through to Further Education and on to Higher Education. It allows users to create and maintain their timeline (a chronological record of their learning, work and personal episodes) and share it with other users, aiming to foster collaborative elaboration of future goals and aspirations. This paper describes the design of the system’s facility for searching for “people like me”, presents the results of an evaluation session with a group of mature learners, and discusses outcomes arising from this evaluation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ECTEL
• Authors: Nicolas van Labeke, George D. Magoulas, Alexandra Poulovassilis
• Keywords: Chronological Record, ECTEL 2009, Further Education, Machine Learning, Secondary Education