ASSISTING LEARNER'S IN MONITORING THEIR CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT - On the Design of a Computer-based Service to Support Conceptual Development

摘要

This paper elaborates on the design of a computer-based service that supports conceptual development. Our ambition is provide learners a way to compare their conceptual development against different reference models, so they recognize the limits of their expertise. These models are (semi) automatically generated from learning materials and learner text inputs using Latent Semantic Analysis, a technique that identifies in input text materials the concepts and their relations. The paper explains the envisioned service presenting a scenario that illustrates how it could be used in formal and informal learning context. After, the paper elaborates the theoretical background behind the design of the service and, finally, it draws conclusions and outlines future work.