Using Visual Guidance and Feedback Based on Competence Structures for Personalising E-Learning Experience

In this paper a novel approach is presented how visualisation of knowledge and competence structures can be employed in order to support personalisation in e-learning systems. Information visualisation strategies are used to present ontology-based domain knowledge and related competence structures to the learner. In contrast to adaptive e-learning systems which employ domain and user models for the adaptation and personalisation strategies, the learner uses these visual knowledge maps to decide on the own learning process. Furthermore, visual knowledge maps are used to give feedback to the learner about learning progress and assessment result. Methods and techniques are presented how these maps can be used for visual guidance and feedback. A set of learning tools have been developed which implement and demonstrate the proposed approach.