Authors:
Élise Garrot
;
Sébastien George
and
Patrick Prévôt
Affiliation:
ICTT Laboratory, INSA Lyon, France
Keyword(s):
Computer based environments for human learning, tutors’ role and instrumentation, ontology, expert
system.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Instructional Design
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Software Tools for e-Learning
Abstract:
Currently, tutor’s roles in distance learning are not clearly defined and few tools support him/her in his/her
functions. Some tools help tutors to monitor learners and interact with them, but no tools assist them in the
setting-up of learning sessions. Activities are created by instructional designers who envisage standard
scenarios without knowing the learners. Thus, the aim of our research project is to create a system to help
tutors to adapt learning situations to learners’ needs and characteristics. The first phase of our work consists
in determine tutor’s roles in collaborative distance learning, in order to identify his/her needs. Then, we
implement an assistance system based on an ontology containing learners’ characteristics and parameters of
learning situations. An inference engine creates links between these characteristics by reasoning on the
ontology. Finally, some rules deduce relations between ontology elements in order to give the tutor advice.