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Requirements Framework for Personalized Real-Time Feedback in Interactive Agent-Based E-Learning Systems

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E-learning systems at the market do not adequately support learning in a constructivist way because they do not adapt to the special needs and personal attributes of individual learners. Eliciting complete and correct requirements is a major challenge in personalized learning. Literature review and Interviews conducted with twenty lecturers helped in the design of questionnaires administered to three hundred second and third year students of Bachelor of Science Education and IT related courses from two universities in Uganda. Respondents were allowed to interact with two types of systems A that gave feedback at the end of each task and B at every stage during a learning process. The nine attributes used in the design of the questionnaire got the lowest response being 55.8% (feedback) and the highest 74.2% (Personalizing learning). These were used to design the basic requirements framework needed for personalized learning with real-time feedback in e-learning system.

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  • Agent-Based Approach
  • E-Learning Systems
  • Framework
  • Interactive and Real-Time Feedback

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  1. Busitema University, P.O. Box 236, Tororo, Uganda

    Godfrey Omoda-Onyait

  2. School of Computing and Engineering, Uganda Technology and Management University, Uganda

    Jude T. Lubega

  3. College of Computing and Information Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda

    Gilbert Maiga

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    Simon K. S. Cheung

  2. Computer Science Department, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Joseph Fong

  3. School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

    Wilfred Fong

  4. Deaprtment of Business Administration, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 18 Chui Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China

    Fu Lee Wang

  5. Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Lam For Kwok

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Omoda-Onyait, G., Lubega, J.T., Maiga, G. (2013). Requirements Framework for Personalized Real-Time Feedback in Interactive Agent-Based E-Learning Systems. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Fong, J., Fong, W., Wang, F.L., Kwok, L.F. (eds) Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education. ICHL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39750-9_27

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