LIA: An Intelligent Advisor for e-Learning

Intelligent e-learning systems have revolutionized online education by providing individualized and personalized instruction for each learner. Nevertheless, till now very few systems were able to leave academic labs and be integrated in real commercial products. One of this few exceptions is the Learning Intelligent Advisor (LIA) described in this paper, built on results coming from several research projects and currently integrated in a complete e-learning solution named IWT. The purpose of this paper is to describe how LIA works and how it cooperates with IWT in the provisioning of an individualized and personalized e-learning experience. Results of experimentations with real users coming from IWT customers are also presented and discussed in order to demonstrate the benefits of LIA as an add-on in on-line learning.

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