Educational Data Mining 2009 Automatic Concept Relationships Discovery for an Adaptive E-course

Abstract. To make learning process more effective, the educational systems deliver content adapted to specific user needs. Adequate personalization requires the domain of learning to be described explicitly in a particular detail, involving relationships between knowledge elements referred to as concepts. Manual creation of necessary annotations is in the case of larger courses a demanding task. In this paper we tackle a concept relationship discovery problem that is a step in adaptive e-course authoring process. We propose a method of automatic concept relationship discovery for an adaptive e-course. We present two approaches based on domain model graph analysis. We evaluate our method in the domain of programming.