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Author(s): Florian, Beatriz; Glahn, Christian; Drachsler, Hendrik; Specht, Marcus; Gesa, Ramón Fabregat
Title: Activity-based learner-models for lerner monitoring and recommendations in Moodle
In: Kloos, Carlos Delgado; Gillet, Denis; García, Raquel M. Crespo; Wild, Fridolin; Wolpers, Martin (Hrsg.): Towards ubiquitous learning: 6th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2011, Palermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011, proceedings, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011 , S. 111-124
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23985-4_10
Publication Type: 4. Beiträge in Sammelwerken; Tagungsband/Konferenzbeitrag/Proceedings
Language: Englisch
Abstract: In technology-enhanced learning, activity-based learner models can provide evidence for competence assessment. Such models are the foundation for learning and teaching support, such as: adaptation, assessment, and competence analytics, recommendations, and so on. This paper analyses how to construct activity-based learner models based on existing data in the Moodle learning management system. Based on the activity theory model and the actuator-indicator model, aggregators of learner activities for different activity types were implemented in Moodle. This requires the consideration of the social roles in a course, in order to enable adaptive views for learners and instructors on the stored activity information. The implementation showed that Moodle stores information about course activities that requires filtering before it can get used for higher level processing. The social planes in Moodle reveal a higher complexity than it has been previously described by theories of classroom orchestration, such as actors who are no longer present in a course. (Orig.)