EDUCA: A web 2.0 authoring tool for developing adaptive and intelligent tutoring systems using a Kohonen network

This paper presents a Web 2.0 Learning Environment, for a systematic creation of adaptive and intelligent tutoring systems. Authoring contents is made by a community of users including teachers and students. The tutoring systems adapt the contents according to the best learning style using self-organizing maps (SOMs). The SOM was trained for classifying Felder–Silverman learning styles. The most important advantage of these unsupervised neural networks is that they do not require an external teacher for presenting a training set. The approach was implemented under an authoring tool that allows the production of personalized learning material to be used under collaborative and mobile learning environments. The tutoring systems together with the neural network can also be exported to mobile devices. We present different results to the approach working under the authoring tool.

Research highlights► We present a Web 2.0 tool for creating adaptive and intelligent tutoring systems. ► The tool can produce learning material for mobile learning environments. ► Authoring content is made by a community of users including teachers and students. ► A Kohonen network is used to classify Felder-Silverman learning styles. ► We present different results to the approach working under the authoring tool.