Improving content sequencing of packaged content through feedback and priority

Educational Technology has proved to be a blessing for those who have a thrust to learn on their own. This is not restricted to normal learners, but special needs learners can also benefit from the technology. Although, it is not an easy task for such learners, due to their difficulties, they can still learn by Assistive Technologies. Generation and design of digital learning objects and sequencing of these objects are the major challenges faced by any Educational Technology. In this piece of work, we propose a generic method for sequencing of digital learning objects to cater to the educational needs of these special needs learners. We have considered the sequences to be generated in terms of multi-levels having priorities and difficulty levels. Each term in a sequence is considered to be a package of learning content, revision content, assessment module and feedback. The feedback is an important deciding factor for dynamism in sequence generation.

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