Users-centric adaptive learning system based on interval type-2 fuzzy logic for massively crowded e-learning platforms

• Autorzy: Almohammadi K. , Hagras H. , Alghazzawi D. , Aldabbagh G.

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DOI

10.1515/jaiscr-2016-0008

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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Technological advancements within the educational sector and online learning promoted portable data-based adaptive techniques to influence the developments within transformative learning and enhancing the learning experience. However, many common adaptive educational systems tend to focus on adopting learning content that revolves around pre-black box learner modelling and teaching models that depend on the ideas of a few experts. Such views might be characterized by various sources of uncertainty about the learner response evaluation with adaptive educational system, linked to learner reception of instruction. High linguistic uncertainty levels in e-learning settings result in different user interpretations and responses to the same techniques, words, or terms according to their plans, cognition, pre-knowledge, and motivation levels. Hence, adaptive teaching models must be targeted to individual learners’ needs. Thus, developing a teaching model based on the knowledge of how learners interact with the learning environment in readable and interpretable white box models is critical in the guidance of the adaptation approach for learners’ needs as well as understanding the way learning is achieved. This paper presents a novel interval type-2 fuzzy logic-based system which is capable of identifying learners’ preferred learning strategies and knowledge delivery needs that revolves around characteristics of learners and the existing knowledge level in generating an adaptive learning environment. We have conducted a large scale evaluation of the proposed system via real-word experiments on 1458 students within a massively crowded e-learning platform. Such evaluations have shown the proposed interval type-2 fuzzy logic system’s capability of handling the encountered uncertainties which enabled to achieve superior performance with regard to better completion and success rates as well as enhanced learning compared to the non-adaptive systems, adaptive system versions led by the teacher, and type-1-based fuzzy based counterparts.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Type-2 Fuzzy Logic systems; e-learning; intelligent learning environments

• Wydawca: University of Social Sciences
• Czasopismo: Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research
• Rocznik: 2016
• Tom: Vol. 6, No. 2
• Strony: 81--101
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 34 poz., rys.

Twórcy

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Almohammadi K.

• The Computational Intelligence Centre, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering University of Essex, Colchester, UK

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Hagras H.

• The Computational Intelligence Centre, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering University of Essex, Colchester, UK

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Alghazzawi D.

• Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Aldabbagh G.

• The Computational Intelligence Centre, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering University of Essex, Colchester, UK

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Uwagi

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Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.