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What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling

, , , and . Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World, volume 9307 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, (2015)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_12

Abstract

One of the original goals of intelligent educational systems was to guide each student to the most appropriate educational content. In previous studies, we explored both knowledge-based and social guidance approaches and learned that each has a weak side. In the present work, we have explored the idea of combining social guidance with more traditional knowledge-based guidance systems in hopes of supporting more optimal content navigation. We propose a greedy sequencing approach aimed at maximizing each student's level of knowledge and implemented it in the context of an open social student modeling interface. We performed a classroom study to examine the impact of this combined guidance approach. The results of our classroom study show that a greedy guidance approach positively affected students' navigation, increased the speed of learning for strong students, and improved the overall performance of students, both within the system and through end-of-course assessments.

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