Adaptive Content Creation for Personalized e-Learning Using Web Services

A c hallenging topic in computer based education is to pr ovide personalization support for learners when e-learning t akes place in an open and dynamic envi ronment. By selecting and combining appropriate l earning ass ets into a l earning ob ject a l earner's needs and preferences may be ac counted for. Also by implementing web service in an adaptive learning environment the reusability of the learning content can be ensured. This paper addresses the problems of automatically selecting and integrating appropriate l earning materials for a learner using web services based o n the learners initial knowledge, goals, preferences etc. A system is described that provides l earning co ntent to multimedia i ndustries and institutions those who are working i n A dobe Flas h. Instead of providing a learner with static d ata, the approach is based on fulfilling learning objectives based on a d ynamic supply of services. Furthermore, the approach is based on reusable learning objects describing a learning process as a composition of learning goals. Based on the learning goals as well as web services, services appropriate t o ach ieve a specific learning goal ca n be selected, co mposed and invoked dynamically.