Articulation of information requirements for personalised knowledge construction

  • Authors:

  • Lily Sun;Khadidjatou Ousmanou

  • Affiliations:

  • Informatics Research Centre, The University of Reading, Reading, UK;Informatics Research Centre, The University of Reading, Reading, UK

  • Venue:
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The quality of information provision influences considerably knowledge construction driven by individual users’ needs. In the design of information systems for e-learning, personal information requirements should be incorporated to determine a selection of suitable learning content, instructive sequencing for learning content, and effective presentation of learning content. This is considered as an important part of instructional design for a personalised information package. The current research reveals that there is a lack of means by which individual users’ information requirements can be effectively incorporated to support personal knowledge construction. This paper presents a method which enables an articulation of users’ requirements based on the rooted learning theories and requirements engineering paradigms. The user’s information requirements can be systematically encapsulated in a user profile (i.e. user requirements space), and further transformed onto instructional design specifications (i.e. information space). These two spaces allow the discovering of information requirements patterns for self-maintaining and self-adapting personalisation that enhance experience in the knowledge construction process.