Εισάγοντας την έννοια των Προσδοκώμενων Αποτελεσμάτων σε Συστήματα Διαχείρισης Γνώσης της Ηλεκτρονικής Μάθησης

Abstract

The process of defining the educational objectives of a particular course constitutes a significant part of the instructional design process. First of all, the expected learning outcomes form an indicator for students, as far as their rate of progress is concerned. In addition, within an e-learning environment -where innovative technologies can be applied- learning outcomes can be considered as a kind of knowledge that can be further utilized by intelligent systems in order to offer enhanced applications, personalized to students’ needs. This aspect of educational objectives is what we exactly research within this work. Nevertheless, in order for learning outcomes to be used by intelligent systems in a fruitful way, it is important to identify their exact meaning and structure. Hence, we first try to assign a stricter and more technical definition to the notion of learning outcomes, which is fully aligned though with their educational characteristics. Furthermore, we aim for modeling the notion of learning outcomes in a machine understandable way by using ontologies, which is a widely used technique in the field of knowledge representation.