Automatic learning sequence template generation for educational reuse

Sharing resources and information on Internet has become an important activity for education. The learning object repository has been developed to achieve efficient management of learning objects. Following usage experiences of learning objects collected in the past, this study concentrates on investigating implicit information between learning objects. We define a social structure for identifying relationship between learning objects and define a set of metrics to evaluate the interdependency. The structure identifies usage experiences and can be graphed in terms of implicit and explicit relations among learning objects. As a practical contribution, an adaptive algorithm is proposed to mine the social structure. The algorithm generates adaptive learning sequence by identifying possible interactive search input and assists them in completing self-paced learning situation.