User Modelling and Adaptation in Exploratory Learning
Mihaela Cocea · UPT. Syiah Kuala University Library (Syiah Kuala University) · 2013
I declare that this thesis was composed by myself and that the work contained herein is my own except where explicitly stated otherwise in the text. Signature (Mihaela Cocea) User modelling in Exploratory Learning Environments (ELEs) is an emerging field with several challenges to be addressed. Due to the freedom given to learners, the amount of information generated is very large, making the modelling process very challenging. Consequently, only relevant information should be used in the user modelling process. This, however, leads to other challenges such as identification of relevant information, finding an optimal knowledge representation and defining an inference mechanism by which this knowledge is used in diagnosing the learner. This thesis addresses the challenges of user modelling in ELEs by monitoring learners ’ behaviour and taking into account only relevant actions in the context