Personalized e-Learning Environments: Considering Students' Contexts [chapter]

Victoria Eyharabide, Isabela Gasparini, Silvia Schiaffino, Marcelo Pimenta, Analía Amandi
2009 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
Personalization in e-learning systems is vital since they are used by a wide variety of students with different characteristics. There are several approaches that aim at personalizing e-learning environments. However, they focus mainly on technological and/or networking aspects without caring of contextual aspects. They consider only a limited version of context while providing personalization. In our work, the objective is to improve e-learning environment personalization making use of a
more » ... understanding and modeling of the user's educational and technological context using ontologies. We show an example of the use of our proposal in the AdaptWeb system, in which content and navigation recommendations are provided depending on the student's context.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03115-1_5 fatcat:se7zesc6ordr5gvr46snjyrzii