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An Automatic Course Generation System for Organizing Existent Learning Objects Using Particle Swarm Optimization

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Learning by Playing. Game-based Education System Design and Development (Edutainment 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 5670))

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The purpose of this study is to consider that how to help instructors re-organize a well-structured teaching material utilizing existing learning objects. To cope with this problem, this study adopts a novel approach - particle swarm optimization (PSO) to achieve this aim. By employing this algorithm, the proposed approach can automatically re-organize a teaching material and meet multiple criteria specified by the instructors. In addition, evaluation results have demonstrated that the proposed approach is applicable that can help most instructors re-organize teaching materials efficiently and effectively.

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  1. Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan, 701, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Yen-Ting Lin & Yueh-Min Huang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, No. 1, Nantai St, Yung-Kang City, Tainan, 710, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Shu-Chen Cheng

  3. Department of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Ming Chuan University, No. 250, Sec. 5, Zhong Shan North. Road, Taipei, 111, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Jin-Tan Yang

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computing and Information Systems 1200, Athabasca University, 10011-109 Street, T5J-3S8, Edmont, Canada

    Maiga Chang

  2. Department of Digital Design 369, Ming Dao University, Wen-Hua Dr., Peetow, 52345, ChangHua, Taiwan

    Rita Kuo

  3. School of Computing and Inforamtion Systems, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, T9S 3A3, Athabasca, AB, Canada

    Kinshuk

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, 300, Jhongda Rd., 32001, Jhongli City, Taiwan

    Gwo-Dong Chen

  5. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656, Tokyo, Japan

    Michitaka Hirose

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Lin, YT., Cheng, SC., Yang, JT., Huang, YM. (2009). An Automatic Course Generation System for Organizing Existent Learning Objects Using Particle Swarm Optimization. In: Chang, M., Kuo, R., Kinshuk, Chen, GD., Hirose, M. (eds) Learning by Playing. Game-based Education System Design and Development. Edutainment 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03364-3_70

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