Assistance of Student by Web Services based on Annotations

Abstract

We focus in our research on the annotative activity of learner because annotation practice is very common and omnipresent. While reading, learner usually uses comments, highlights, circles sections and posts it to annotate the consulted resources. So, we propose an approach of recommendation of web services from the learner's annotative activity to assist him in his learning activates. This process of recommendation is based on two preparatory phases: the phase of modelling learner's personality profile through analysis of annotation digital traces in learning environment realized through a profile constructor module and the phase of discovery of web services which can meet the goals of annotations made by learner via the web service discovery module. The evaluation of these two main modules (web service discovery module and profile constructor module) through empirical studies realized on groups of learners based on the Student's t-test showed significant results.