Chaoui, M., & Laskri, M. T. (2013). Proposition and Organization of an Adaptive Learning Domain based on Fusion from the
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Proposition and Organization of an Adaptive Learning Domain based on
Fusion from the Web
Mohammed Chaoui and Mohamed Tayeb Laskri
Department of Computer Science, Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba, Algeria // chaoui.mohamed@yahoo.fr //
laskri@univ-annaba.org
ABSTRACT
The Web allows self-navigated education through interaction with large amounts of Web resources. While
enjoying the flexibility of Web tools, authors may suffer from research and filtering Web resources, when they
face various resources formats and complex structures. An adaptation of extracted Web resources must be
assured by authors, to give reliability, satisfaction of learners and content quality of E-learning platform. This
study has proposed Fusion of Web resources approach to this problem and organized resources to an Adaptive
Learning Domain into E-learning platform. The focus was firstly, on searching tools and filtering methods to
extract the most relevant educational Web resources and structuring them to create courses, secondly, on
adaptation of extracted Web resources. Our approach explores a new process of fusion in creation and in
adaptation to learner’s profiles. That approach doesn’t need much time and many efforts which can be taken and
done by authors to create courses. It also finds direct way to Web resources which are needed, and the update of
courses that can be done directly from the Web with the reuse of extracted resources. The evaluation of this
work has given high performance in comparison with different methods of course's creation.
Keywords
Web resources, Adaptive Learning Domain, Fusion, E-learning Platform, and Learner Profiles
Introduction
Technology has created cyberspace and decomposed national and international barriers. Today anyone possesses
computer, modem and supplier access which can be connected to the new means and enjoy its many gifts. Everyone
can teach and anyone can learn what, when and where he wants. Nowadays, the rapid technological revolution has
changed the world totally, especially at the level of knowledge and information’s transfer inside and outside the
university, thus gives new type of higher education fundamentally different from the previous one (Brusilovsky,
1999). Online education as a tool for distance learning is considered as a teaching method that allows teacher and
learner to be separated from each other in time and in place while they are remaining connected by an appropriate
technology (Kolb, 1984). In online education, the separation time and space is filled by ICT (Information and
Communication Technologies) networks, including the Internet and World Wide Web. E-learning is useful in
education, business and all types of learning. Through this method, money and time can be saved. In addition to,
producing measurable results (Amaral & Leal, 2006; Arthurs, 2007; Bostrom, Olfman & Sein, 1990; Brusilovsky,
2004). E-learning is mainly the network transfer of skills and knowledge in E-learning platform by using electronic
applications and learning process (Brooks, Kettel & Hansen, 2005; Rodica & Anca, 2008).
With the rapid development of digital technology, information has become a very important area of research through
which researchers open doors on several researching areas, such as indexing, backup and representation of
information (Senan, 2008). And then, it has a responsible way for each course preparation in online training, but it
also requires some steps, especially the selection of the most relevant information (Chaoui & Laskri, 2011b).
Information is available in several formats on the Web, particularly in text format flexible to any changes and can be
updated also by authors and learners. This change and update make the task of adapting the information very difficult
and not completed process (Canales et al., 2007; García-Barrios, 2006; Monova-Zheleva, 2005; Rosmalen et al.,
2006; Ruiz et al., 2008). Additionally, the amount of learning materials on the Internet has grown rapidly in recent
decades. Therefore, the information’s consumers are challenged to choose the right things. In E-learning systems,
most approaches have led to confusion for learners. For that, adaptive learning has gained much attention in this area
(Chaoui & Laskri, 2011a; Monova-Zheleva, 2005; Papanikolaou et al., 2002; Rey-Lopez et al., 2009; Sampson,
Karagiannidis & Cardinali, 2002; Wang, Wang, & Huang, 2008; Yang & Wu, 2009; Yessad et al., 2008).
Our aim through this work PrOALDoF-Web “Proposition and Organization of an Adaptive Learning Domain based
on Fusion from Web” to reduce the huge space of the Web which contains billions of Web pages, that huge space
becomes personalized one with direct learners’ adaptation to meet their satisfaction and to provide good training
which can be changed and updated, but with reliable and academic resources.