Expert System for Educational Content Selection Based on Standards

The most common approach to content selection for educational purposes is often focused on how to display these contents in the variety of devices that the user could have (PC, PDA, mobiles, etc.); neither user needs nor preferences are taken into account, nor the desired features for accessible content. This paper depicts the standard based Expert System that is being developed on the framework of the European project EU4ALL [European Unified Approach for Assisted Life Long Learning IST-FP6-034778]. The goal of this component is to select the content that provides best adaptation to the user. The first prototype of this component has been developed following a SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) approach so it can be easily integrated with existing Virtual Learning Environment.