Measuring the Complexity of Learning Content to Enable Automated Comparison, Recommendation, and Generation
Autor: | Keith Brawner, Behrooz Mostafavi, Dar-Wei Chen, Jeremiah T. Folsom-Kovarik |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Point (typography) Computer science business.industry 05 social sciences Control (management) Usability 02 engineering and technology Recommender system Variety (cybernetics) Personalization Human–computer interaction 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business 050107 human factors |
Zdroj: | Adaptive Instructional Systems ISBN: 9783030223403 HCI (32) |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-22341-0_16 |
Popis: | Learning content is increasingly diverse in order to meet learner needs for individual personalization, progression, and variety. Learners may encounter material through different content, which invites a measurable comparison method in order to tell when delivered content is sufficient or similar. Content recommendation and generation similarly motivate a fine-grained measure that enhances the search for just the right content or identifies where new learning content is needed to support all learners. Complexity offers a fine-grained way of measuring content which works across instructional domains and media types, potentially adding to existing qualitative and quantitative content descriptions. Reductionist complexity measures focus on quantifiable accounting which practitioners and computers in support of practice can use together to communicate about the complexity of learning content. In addition, holistic complexity measures incorporate contextual influences on complexity that practitioners typically reason about when they understand, choose, and personalize learning content. A combined measure of complexity uses learning objectives as a focus point to let teachers and trainers manage the scope of reductionist elements and capture holistic context factors that are likely to affect the learning content. The combined measure has been demonstrated for automated content generation. This concrete example enables an upcoming study on the expert acceptance and usability of complexity for differentiating between hundreds of generated scenarios. As the combined complexity measure is refined and tested in additional domains, it has potential to help computers reason about learning content from many sources in a unified manner that experts can understand, control, and accept. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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