Designer - Supporting Teachers Experience in Learning Management Systems

Abstract

In the lifelong learning context, the efficiency of learning is measured according to the users’ achievement of the target competences. However, in a virtual learning environment supporting the competence development process ends up being an elusive and time-consuming task for teachers or instructional designers. Furthermore, tailoring courses to the individual learner’s needs and preferences has high potential to improve the learning process of learners. However, again, this is a time-consuming and complex task for teachers and instructional designers. In this paper, we introduce Designer, an approach for teachers to help them in designing courses via a semi-automatic design process based on dynamic user modeling and adaptive learning design generation. A qualitative and quantitative evaluation demonstrated the effectiveness of Designer in supporting teachers to create adaptive courses.