Lecomps5: a Framework for the Automatic Building of Personalized Learning Sequences

Abstract. In the context of distance learning, Adaptive Web-based Educational System focus on personalization and adaptation, that is on “learner’s satisfac- tion”. In this paper we address the other side of the coin, that is the "teacher’s satisfaction" problem, which is quite seldom taken into account in educational systems. We present a new version of the Lecomps5 Web-based Educational System, a system capable of providing personalization and adaptation on the basis of learner’s knowledge, learning styles and learning progresses. In this new version, a framework provides the teacher with an easy and flexible tool for managing learning material, expressing different didactic strategies and se- quencing personalized courses by means of an embedded planner. Such func- tionalities are supported by the system basing on evaluations of learner’s knowledge, learning styles, and learning progresses. We report on a first con- trolled experiment, we made to evaluate the “teacher’s satisfaction”.