Linking Educational Specifications and Standards for Dynamic Modelling in ADAPTAPlan

ADAPTAPlan project provides dynamic assistance to support the author in developing instructional design tasks which are included in learning design templates generated in terms of user modelling, planning and machine learning techniques, and making a pervasive use of educational specifications (IMS family) and standards (IEEE-LOM, ISO PNP). In this paper we describe how these standards and specifications are linked to support the dynamic modelling. Three types of user characteristics are considered in order to generate adaptation: i) Felder learning styles, ii) the knowledge level based on Bloom’s Taxonomy and iii) collaborative competency levels. The modelling is performed in ADA+, a multi-agent architecture that applies collaborative filtering, machine learning and fuzzy logic techniques on the learners’ interactions to support the development of personalised learning paths and to generate dynamic recommendations to be provided during the course execution.