Building a framework to design and evaluate meta-learning support systems

Abstract

It is difficult to generalize and accumulate experiences of system development as methodologies for building meta-learning support systems. Therefore, we need to build a framework that is useful to design and evaluate meta-learning support systems. Thus we propose a framework as a basis to design and evaluate meta-learning support systems. In this paper, we firstly describe our philosophy to solve the problem. Secondly, we propose a metalearning process model as a basis to understand meta-learning task and what kinds of factors of difficulty exist in performing meta-learning activities. Thirdly, we explain our conceptualization as a basis to design support functions for prompting meta-learning processes. Then, we integrate a meta-learning process model and the conceptualizations, so that we can design and evaluate meta-learning systems. Finally, we illustrate the usefulness of the framework by taking our presentation based meta-learning system as an example. © Springer-Verlag 2010.