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Personalization in distributed e-learning environments

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Wolfgang Nejdl,

Michael SintekAuthors Info & Claims

WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

Pages 170 - 179

https://doi.org/10.1145/1013367.1013395

Published: 19 May 2004 Publication History

Abstract

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.

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