Title: Developing a smart learning environment for the implementation of an adaptive connectivist MOOC platform

Authors: Soumaya El Emrani; Ali El Merzouqi; Mohamed Khaldi

Addresses: Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetuan, Morocco ' Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetuan, Morocco ' Superior Normal School, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Martil, Morocco

Abstract: A pedagogical object can refer to any pedagogical component that can be used in the learning process. It could be a text, an image, a video, a web page, etc. Personalising the pedagogical content can be considered crucial. So, this can declare the need to find collaboration agreements between the pedagogical contents specialists, in order to get the collaborative development or the pedagogical content reuse. Consequently, e-learning standards and specifications give the solution, with possibilities of reuse, interoperability and customisation. Since the main goal of our research is providing an adaptive connectivist massive online open courses (cMOOC), this requires an adjustment of the pedagogical content to each learner's profile. So, an adaptive learning design has to present different learning strategies based on the process of data analysis that include previous and current experiences, learning styles and learner's profile. As a part of the intelligent system implementation, this structural design can be made by using some machine learning algorithms of classification in parallel with the IMS standard and related specifications.

Keywords: pedagogical object; massive online open course; MOOC; cMOOC; adaptive cMOOC; machine learning; intelligent platform; pedagogical content; IMS; e-learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCC.2021.120389

International Journal of Cloud Computing, 2021 Vol.10 No.5/6, pp.492 - 506

Received: 21 Feb 2019
Accepted: 09 Feb 2020
Published online: 19 Jan 2022 *

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