Escuela Superior Politécnica del LitoralESPOL

February, 2011

Location

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoralwww.espol.edu.ec

• 15.128 Students

• 10.164 Undergraduate students

• 3.964 Pre – Politécnico students

• 1.000 Graduate students

Teaching and Learning

Technologies

Work, Collaboration

and Telepresence

Intelligent Assistive

Technology

e-Infrastructure

Human Dimensions

of Technology

Research Lines

• The right resource at the right moment

• Automatically measure the progress of the student

• One (virtual) tutor per student

Social Sharing and Recommendation of Learning Materials

• A repository

• A search interface

• A social layer

• A ranking system

• A recommendation engine

Social Sharing and Recommendation of Learning Materials

Repository

RESTful Interface

Search Interface

Social Layer

Actions Repository

Ranking SystemRecommendation

Engine

Repository

• Based on ARIADNE technology

• AP of LOM for Programming

• REST Search API

• REST Insertion API

Search Interface

• HTML + Javascript

• Use the repository REST API

• Could be embedded in LMS (Moodle)

Social Layer

• Users are able to rate or comment on the objects

• Other users are able to see the ratings and comments

• Implicit rating by action capturing/analyzing

Ranking System

• Simple ranking systems based on:

– Query

– User Profile (if available)

– Explicit Rating

– Implicit Rating

Recommendation Engine

• Based on Available information

– Content Based Recommendation

– User Based Recommendation

– Knowledge Based Recommendation

Examples: LRE Portal

Examples: Connexions

Examples: Flashcard Exchange

We will work with:

• UACH

• UAA

• TAMK

We are involved also in:

• Problem solving Protocols (UAA)

• Evolving Adaptive Framework (UNIANDES)