Forum .LRN Q&A: Adaptive Learning

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1: Adaptive Learning
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 10/15/08 08:02 AM
An EU research group is working on getting adaptive learning into multiple LMS systems and thereby provide support for adaptive learning in them.

The project is called GRAPPLE "Generic responsive adaptive personalized learning environment" and they might be open to help with the adoption into .LRN as well.

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2: Re: Adaptive Learning (response to 1)
Posted by Ernie Ghiglione on 10/15/08 08:43 AM
Hi Malte,

There's another Spanish funded project called FLEXO which also deals with adaptive learning for open source e-learning platforms. They'll be focusing on .LRN, Moodle and LAMS.

The fellows from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are involved in the project and they'll be implementing the adaptive learning conceptual model in .LRN.

I don't think the project website is online yet as the project has started very recently, but as soon as it is I'll post it here.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Posted by Emmanuelle Raffenne on 10/15/08 10:54 AM
Hi Malte,

Thanks for the reference. Here's the website of Grapple: http://www.ou.nl/eCache/DEF/1/95/234.html

aDeNu group (UNED) also works on adaptive learning (http://adenu.ia.uned.es). We currently have 2 projects regarding this topic:

- ADAPTAPLAN: http://adenu.ia.uned.es/drupal5/en/projects/adaptaplan
- EU4ALL: http://adenu.ia.uned.es/drupal5/en/projects/eu4all

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Posted by Emmanuelle Raffenne on 10/15/08 10:59 AM
and I forgot to say that in both projects we use .LRN. It was implied 😊
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Posted by Olga C. Santos on 10/15/08 11:33 AM
Very interesting projects!

From our side, both ADAPTAPlan and EU4ALL are based on the previous aLFanet project, where the full life cycle for adaptive learning was defined. Its architecture was presented in the Madrid OpenACS 2005 Conference: http://dotlrn.org/file-storage/view/madrid05/05.pdf
The website is: aLFanet (IST-2001-33288): http://adenu.ia.uned.es/alfanet/

In aLFanet, OpenACS/dotLRN was used just for the interaction module. We were not responsibles of the whole arquitecture, and workpackage leader of the project preferred to rebuild everything in Java and integrate with our module based on OpenACS :'( (instead of taking advantage of using OpenACS!).

From that moment on (and because the experience in aLFanet can be used to clearly demonstrate external collaborators the misteke of not using OpenACS as the core for the developments) we have been extensively using OpenACS framework as the basis of all our developments. In particular, those projects mentioned by Emmanuelle: EU4ALL (IST-2006-034778) and ADAPTAPlan (TIN 2005-08945-C06-00).

Olga

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Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on 10/21/08 10:57 PM
Our Lab (http://lcs.mgh.harvard.edu) is working on Flexo as well. We are working with two of the Universities involved: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Part of our contribution will be implementing a real world pilot of adaptive learning in the hospital using .LRN. This project is just starting up. Thanks for the heads-up Malte.
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Posted by Caroline Meeks on 10/22/08 04:20 AM
Hi,

What code base will you be using for adaptive learning? How far along is it?

We have a little side project we want to do. All the MCAS tests (Massachusetts standardized tests) from prior years are online and categorized. http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/ We'd like to make a site where students could practice for the MCAS.

Technically we'll screen scrape the questions and load them into whatever tool will become the adaptive testing engine. Are you planning on extending the capability of Assessment? If so we can work on the scraping and entering them into assessment as we wait for the adaptive code.

How will the adaptive piece work? Do you have use cases you are working against? Do you have a timeframe?

FAQs for people who might be curious.

Why would you want to do this? Standardized tests are evil! - Yes and adaptive testing is an effective way to do better on them. We hope to push the test givers to move toward better tests by destroying the illusion that standardized multiple choice tests are effective measures.

Who would study for these tests?

Two groups -

1. Students who are in danger of failing and not getting their high school diplomas

2. In Massachusetts if you get an advanced score on the MCAS you get a scholarship to a state university, so students who can not afford college may also wish to study to improve their scores.