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A personalized learning content adaptation mechanism to meet diverse user needs in mobile learning environments

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With the heterogeneous proliferation of mobile devices, the delivery of learning materials on such devices becomes subject to more and more requirements. Personalized learning content adaptation, therefore, becomes increasingly important to meet the diverse needs imposed by devices, users, usage contexts, and infrastructure. Historical server logs offer a wealth of information on hardware capabilities, learners’ preferences, and network conditions, which can be utilized to respond to a new user request with the personalized learning content created from a previous similar request. In this paper, we propose a Personalized Learning Content Adaptation Mechanism (PLCAM), which applies data mining techniques, including clustering and decision tree approaches, to efficiently manage a large number of historical learners’ requests. The proposed method will intelligently and directly deliver proper personalized learning content with higher fidelity from the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)-compliant Learning Object Repository (LOR) by means of the proposed adaptation decision and content synthesis processes. Furthermore, the experimental results indicate that it is efficient and is expected to prove beneficial to learners.

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    Jun-Ming Su

  2. Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Asia University, Taichung, 413, Taiwan

    Shian-Shyong Tseng

  3. Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan

    Huan-Yu Lin & Chun-Han Chen

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Su, JM., Tseng, SS., Lin, HY. et al. A personalized learning content adaptation mechanism to meet diverse user needs in mobile learning environments. User Model User-Adap Inter 21, 5–49 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-010-9094-0

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