Cooperative Learning: Adaptive Group Formation for Collaborative Learning

Abstract

Collaborative learning affects with lot of factors like student’s personality, their interaction patterns, learning styles etc. Grouping of students is one of the important factors. It is important to arrange groups by skills and/or backgrounds. Hence it is noteworthy to create groups based on specific skills of students. Generally the students can be randomly grouped or grouped themselves. But this method of grouping students based on certain features like personality traits can improve the efficiency of collaborative learning. The student’s data can be collected from social networking site like Facebook. The personality of each student can be identified by comparing the individual’s chat history with psycholinguistic databases. The main objectives of this paper are to identify the student’s personality. Based on that, the group of students can be formed using k-means clustering algorithm.