Crowdsourcing a Personalized Learning Environment for Mathematics

Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL 2010.

自然科学(总论);计算机科学

Joseph Corneli

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PID  :  41050

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Can we build a semantically adaptive personal learning envi-ronment that helps people learn mathematics and that meets reasonable criteria for sustainable growth and development? This is question that applies at the interface between participatory social media and interac- tive, adaptive, \knowledge media". Ten years ago, no one had heard of Wikipedia. Perhaps in another ten, P2PU will be as popular as my home institution, The Open University. A wide range of stakeholders in educa- tion are surely curious to know why, or why not, and what this may mean for their careers. Aside from the possible social signicance of the ques- tion, I anticipate that the personal learning environment (PLE) approach will provide an interesting stream of use data, including implicit and ex- plicit information about how people learn mathematics. This opportu- nity to look in detail at learning behaviour in open, online, participatory, educational spaces is quite new. My project will combine socio-cultural analysis, technical development work, and datamining techniques to help support both individualized learning and ongoing system development. Key words: crowdsourcing, personal learning environments, mathemat-