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Evolution of Teaching and Learning Paradigms in Intelligent Environment pp 83–117Cite as

Sequencing in Web-Based Education: Approaches, Standards and Future Trends

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Web-based education (WBE) has seen in recent years a significant increase both in its functionality as well as possible scenarios. After a first stage in which these systems offered mainly content management and course management capabilities, systems now offer solutions that cover pedagogical aspects such as activity sequencing. This chapter presents several approaches to the problem of adaptive sequencing. They are representative of the main initiatives for defining sequences of learning units that can be adapted to different users, with different capabilities and needs. All of them have some graphical background, but they focus on different issues use of well-known tools, use of simple metaphors like graphs, etc. The main two initiatives of standardization related to the sequencing problem (IMS Simple Sequencing and IMS Learning Design) are also examined. Finally, two approaches to social sequencing, an emerging trend inspired by the behaviour of social insects, are depicted.

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  • Unify Modelling Language
  • Future Trend
  • Adaptive Sequencing
  • Learn Management System
  • Object Management Group

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  1. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, South Australia, 5095, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain (Foundation Director of the KES Centre) (Foundation Director of the KES Centre)

  2. School of Medicine, Griffith University Medicine and Oral Health Centre, PMB 50, GCMC, 9726, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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  3. Kings Christian College, 68 Gemvale Road, Reedy Creek, Queensland, 4227, Australia

    Debra K. Tedman

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Gutiérrez, S., Pardo, B. (2007). Sequencing in Web-Based Education: Approaches, Standards and Future Trends. In: Jain, L.C., Tedman, R.A., Tedman, D.K. (eds) Evolution of Teaching and Learning Paradigms in Intelligent Environment. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71974-8_5

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