Research Article

USER MODELING APPROACHES IN ADAPTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT

Adaptive learning systems have potential for accommodating student differences in a diverse population. Adaptive learning can be used both in blended learning settings and flexible learning methods by adjusting to the pace of student, allowing the flexibility in learning styles, different sequence of curriculum and customized presentation. Adaptive system architecture consists of three essential parts; user model, domain model and interaction/adaptation model. As one important feature of any adaptive system is the user model that represents information about each user/student, this paper focuses on user model by overviewing the existing approaches in user modeling in terms of used data types, model initializing methods and implementation of the models.

Keywords

daptive learning systems (ALS) adaptive eLearning user modeling learner model