Towards Automatic Building of Learning Pathways

Patrick Siehndel, Ricardo Kawase, Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Eelco Herder

2014

Abstract

Learning material usually has a logical structure, with a beginning and an end, and lectures or sections that build upon one another. However, in informal Web-based learning this may not be the case. In this paper, we present a method for automatically calculating a tentative order in which objects should be learned based on the estimated complexity of their contents. Thus, the proposed method is based on a process that enriches textual objects with links to Wikipedia articles, which are used to calculate a complexity score for each object. We evaluated our method with two different datasets: Wikipedia articles and online learning courses. For Wikipedia data we achieved correlations between the ground truth and the predicted order of up to 0.57 while for subtopics inside the online learning courses we achieved correlations of 0.793.

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Siehndel P., Kawase R., Pereira Nunes B. and Herder E. (2014). Towards Automatic Building of Learning Pathways . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-024-6, pages 270-277. DOI: 10.5220/0004837602700277


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@conference{webist14,
author={Patrick Siehndel and Ricardo Kawase and Bernardo Pereira Nunes and Eelco Herder},
title={Towards Automatic Building of Learning Pathways},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2014},
pages={270-277},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004837602700277},
isbn={978-989-758-024-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - Towards Automatic Building of Learning Pathways
SN - 978-989-758-024-6
AU - Siehndel P.
AU - Kawase R.
AU - Pereira Nunes B.
AU - Herder E.
PY - 2014
SP - 270
EP - 277
DO - 10.5220/0004837602700277