Adaptive learning system is a process where learning contents are delivered to learners adaptively, namely, the appropriate contents are delivered to the learners in an appropriate way at an appropriate time based on the learners’ needs, knowledge, preferences, and other characteristics. Adaptive social network is a process where connections are made among like-minded learners, so they can achieve learning goals via communication and interaction with each other by sharing knowledge, skills, abilities, and materials.
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Development of Adaptive Social Network Based on Learners' Thinking and Learning Styles
Mahnane Lamia (LRS Laboratory, University of Badji Mokhtar, Algeria) and Hafidi Mohamed (LRS Laboratory, University Badji Mokhtar, Algeria)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5384-7.ch005
Abstract
Adaptive social network sites (ASNS) are an innovative approach to a web learning experience delivery. They try to solve the main shortcomings of classical social networks—“one-size-fits-all” approach and “lost-in-hyperspace” phenomena—by adapting the learning content and its presentation to needs, goals, thinking styles, and learning styles of every individual learner. This chapter outlines a new approach to automatically detect learners' thinking and learning styles, and takes into account that thinking and learning styles may change during the learning process in unexpected and unpredictable ways. The approach is based on the Felder learning styles model and Hermann thinking styles model.