The Challenge of Content Creation to facilitate Personalized eLearning Experiences

The runtime creation of pedagogically coherent learning content for an individual learner’s learning preferences is a considerable challenge. By selecting and combining appropriate learning assets into a new learning object a learner’s needs and preferences may be accounted for. There are a number key aspects that need to be addressed in order to perform this kind of personalization, such as the appropriate modelling of the learner’s needs and preferences, representation of pedagogical strategies, representation of learning assets and the runtime reconciliation of these elements to produce effective and coherent learning experiences. iClass, an Integrated Project, funded by the European Commission under the auspices of the IST FP6, addresses this challenge with an innovative and ambitious suite of eLearning services. This paper introduces iClass and its objectives.