Intelligent Open Learning Systems: Concepts, Models and Algorithms

✍ Scribed by Przemysław Różewski, Emma Kusztina, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Oleg Zaikin (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library 22
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In presented book the Intelligent Open Learning Systems (IOLS) are proposed, described, discussed, and evaluated. The IOLS is a system in which traditional methods of online teaching are enhanced through the use of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This is the main topic of the book.

It consists of ten chapters and is divided into three parts. The first part concentrates on the Open Learning System (OLS) analysis, in particular: the social and educational meanings of the OLS, the new role of the teacher and the new requirements regarding the structure of didactic material. Moreover, the cybernetic model of student, teacher and computer collaboration is presented, the teaching-learning process content and its main characteristics are discussed, and the system based approach to the OLS design is proposed. The second part is focused on the problem of knowledge modeling in the OLS based on the ontology and the competence approaches and leading to the learning object concept and competence management in open systems. The third part describes applications of the OLS in the virtual laboratory for competence transfer, the community-built system of distance learning network, and the AGH student city – the real-life application of the OLS concept.

The authors’ research findings presented in the book should be useful in various applications related to knowledge management, e-learning systems and information systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Educational and Social Meaning of the Open and Distance Learning System: Polish Perspective....Pages 3-22
Distance Learning Environment....Pages 23-50
The Open and Distance Learning Processes Analysis....Pages 51-74
System Approach to Information Open Learning System Design....Pages 75-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Ontology Approach to Knowledge Modeling....Pages 97-119
Learning Object Methodology....Pages 121-150
Methods and Algorithms for Competence Management....Pages 151-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
The Concept of a Virtual Laboratory as the Space for Competencies Transfer....Pages 179-211
The Distance Learning Network....Pages 213-238
AGH Student City as an Example of Open and Distance Learning System....Pages 239-257

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)