Learning spaces, and how to build them

Abstract

In Knowledge Space Theory (KST), a knowledge structure encodes a body of information as a domain, consisting of all the relevant pieces of information, together with the collection of all possible states of knowledge, identified with specific subsets of the domain. Knowledge spaces and learning spaces are defined through pedagogically natural requirements on the collection of all states. We explain here several ways of building in practice such structures on a given domain. In passing we point out some connections linking KST with Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). © 2014 Springer International Publishing.