Learning Path Construction Based on Association Link Network

Yang, Fang; Li, Frederick W.B.; Lau, Rynson W.H.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33642-3_13

Learning Path Construction Based on Association Link Network

Yang, Fang; Li, Frederick W.B.; Lau, Rynson W.H.

Authors

Fang Yang

Dr Frederick Li frederick.li@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Rynson W.H. Lau

Contributors

Elvira Popescu
Editor

Dr Frederick Li frederick.li@durham.ac.uk
Editor

Ralf Klamma
Editor

Howard Leung
Editor

Marcus Specht
Editor

Abstract

Nowadays the Internet virtually serves as a library for people to quickly retrieve information (Web resources) on what they want to learn. Reusing Web resources to form learning resources offers a way for rapid construction of self-pace or even formal courses. This requires identifying suitable Web resources and organizing such resources into proper sequences for delivery. However, getting these done is challenging, as they need to determine a set of Web resources properties, including the relevance, importance and complexity of Web resources to students as well as the relationships among Web resources, which are not trivial to be done automatically. Particularly each student has different needs. To address the above problems, we present a learning path generation method based on the Association Link Network (ALN), which works out Web resources properties by exploiting the association among Web resources. Our experiments show that the proposed method can generate good quality learning paths and help improve student learning.

Citation

Yang, F., Li, F. W., & Lau, R. W. (2012). Learning Path Construction Based on Association Link Network. In E. Popescu, Q. Li, R. Klamma, H. Leung, & M. Specht (Eds.), Advances in web-based learning (ICWL 2012) : proceedings of 11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012 (120-131). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33642-3_13

Publication Date	Jan 1, 2012
Deposit Date	Jul 6, 2016
Publicly Available Date	Jul 19, 2016
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	120-131
Series Title	Lecture notes in computer science
Book Title	Advances in web-based learning (ICWL 2012) : proceedings of 11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012.
ISBN	9783642336416 978, 36423364238
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33642-3_13
Additional Information	Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science