Groupized learning path discovery based on member profile

  • Authors:
  • Xiuzhen Feng;Haoran Xie;Yang Peng;Wei Chen;Huamei Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • Economics & Management School, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China;School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  • Venue:
  • ICWL'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on New horizons in web-based learning
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

With the explosion of knowledge nowadays, it is urgent for people to learn new things quickly and effectively. To meet such a requirement, how we can find a suitable path for learning has become a crucial issue. Meanwhile, in our daily life, it is important and necessary for people from various backgrounds to achieve a certain task (eg. survey, report, business plan, etc.) collaboratively in the form of the group. For these group-based task, it often requires members to learn new knowledge by using e-learning system. In this paper, we focus on addressing the problem on discovering an appropriate study path to facilitate a group of people rather than a single person for effective learning under e-learning environment. Furthermore, we propose a group model to capture the expertise of each member. Based on this model, a groupized learning path discovering (GLPD) algorithm is proposed in order to help a group of learners to grasp new knowledge effectively and efficiently. Finally, we conduct a practical experiment whose result verifies the soundness of our approach.