Educational concept maps for personalized learning path generation

Abstract

The paper focuses on the delivery process of learning materials of a course for students by means of Educational Concept Maps (ECM), while in previous works, we presented the ECM model and its implementation, ENCODE system, as a tool to assist the teacher during the process of instructional design of a course. An ECM is composed of concepts and educational relationships, where a concept represents a learning argument, its prerequisites, learning outcomes and associated learning materials. We propose the learning materials generation founded on the ECM with suggested learning path for accessing educational resources personalized on the base of the student’s knowledge. The personalized document creation is based on a self-evaluation process of his/her knowledge and learning objectives, by pruning concepts on the original ECM and verifying for propaedeutic inconsistency. An algorithm that linearize the map generates the suggested learning path for the student.