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How to Create an Adaptive Learning Environment by Means of Virtual Organizations

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Learning Technology for Education Challenges (LTEC 2018)

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Normally, learning environments provide all participants with the same content and the same activities; this includes knowledge sharing, the addition of material to knowledge domains and pedagogical mediation activities for teachers and students. Thus, these processes do not tend to consider the differences that exist between each student, both in their performance and behavior in the environment. This paper presents a new agent-based environment model, which intends to apply Virtual Organizations (VO) to the field of Learning Management Systems (LMS) to foster collaboration and work between students and teachers. The model is designed as a VO of agents, which adapts that activities and resources available in the LMS to the characteristics of the participants.

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This work has been supported by project “IOTEC: Development of Technological Capacities around the Industrial Application of Internet of Things (IoT)”. 0123_IOTEC_3_E. Project financed with FEDER funds, Interreg Spain-Portugal (PocTep).

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  1. BISITE Digital Innovation Hub, University of Salamanca. Edificio Multiusos I+D+I, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Sara Rodríguez, Pablo Chamoso & Juan M. Corchado

  2. Osaka Institute of Technology (Japan), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Malaysia

    Cecilia Giuffra Palomino & Ricardo Azambuja Silveira

  3. PPEGC/UFSC, Campus Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

    Juan M. Corchado

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Rodríguez, S., Palomino, C.G., Chamoso, P., Silveira, R.A., Corchado, J.M. (2018). How to Create an Adaptive Learning Environment by Means of Virtual Organizations. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D., Ristvej, J. (eds) Learning Technology for Education Challenges. LTEC 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 870. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95522-3_17

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