Automatic and interactive e-Learning auxiliary material generation utilizing particle swarm optimization

  • Authors:

  • Tien-Chi Huang;Yueh-Min Huang;Shu-Chen Cheng

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan No. 1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan No. 1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Technology No. 1, Nantai Street, Yung-Kang City, Tainan 710, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to utilize a PSO-based algorithm, serial blog article composition particle swarm optimization (SBACPSO) algorithm, to automatically and intelligently generate auxiliary materials. Contrary to previous fixed content auxiliary materials, the proposed auxiliary materials, which consist of blogs posted by learners, provide more interactive and cooperative characteristics for the learning process. With a few blog features such as comments, trackbacks, difficulty levels, and association degree related to a specific topic, the best combination of blog articles is produced as an auxiliary material. The generated auxiliary materials from a real course are presented in a system demonstration. The experimental results and satisfaction analysis also indicate that the proposed algorithm can achieve the expected convergence, with participants being satisfied with interaction, assistance, usability, and flexibility.