Title: Towards an automatic monitoring for higher education Learning Design

Authors: David Camacho, Maria D. R-Moreno

Addresses: Dpto. de Informatica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Ctra. de Colmenar Viejo, Km 15, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. ' Dpto. de Automatica, Universidad de Alcala, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, Km. 33,6, 28805 Alcala de Henares (Madrid), Spain

Abstract: The development of new Information Technologies (IT) has originated new possibilities to design pedagogical methodologies that provide the necessary knowledge and skills in the higher education. This paper presents a metadata-based model representation that is used to represent, detect, and even automatically correct possible pitfalls in the schedule process of a Learning Design (LD) in e-learning environments. This metadata-based model is combined with Artificial Intelligence techniques, such as, planning and scheduling to monitor how is evolving a particular LD, and to propose solutions in those modules of the design that learning problems among the students have been found.

Keywords: e-learning; online learning; learning design; higher education; metadata; planning; scheduling; automatic monitoring; artificial intelligence.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2007.015071

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2007 Vol.2 No.1, pp.1 - 10

Published online: 09 Sep 2007 *

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