Education Technology, Student Modeling and Local Data Storage

W3C Technical Architecture Group,




Digital textbooks can make use of student models to enhance student experiences, such as sequences of exercises.  Student models, learning models or cognitive models, can be enhanced as a result of student data, locally stored data, for example as student performance increases as a result of overlapping exercises and activities from arbitrary collections of courses.




Student data and models can be of use to the planning and generating of exercises and sequences of exercises, i.e. mathematics (http://phoster.com/2013/12/planning-and-generating-sequences-of-exercises-for-the-assessment-and-development-of-mathematical-knowledge-and-proficiency/) and creativity (http://phoster.com/2014/03/planning-and-generating-sequences-of-exercises-for-the-assessment-and-development-of-creativity/).




Student data, models, can be stored locally on students’ computers and digital textbooks can securely interoperate with such data and such models, through API, for purposes including optimizing user experiences, optimizing student exercises and enhancing the data available to the student modeling components on platforms.




We can envision students doing homework, doing exercises from multiple courses, multitasking between courses’ digital textbooks and possibly course websites, learning management systems, in ways arbitrary and potentially task-specific.  Data from the entirety of student coursework, across courses, can enhance models, enhancing features, features pertinent to student exercises, for each course.




The Open Web Platform and Web browser technology are specific to the aforementioned and other education technology scenarios; Web browsers could very well be the software technology which renders, displays and facilitates the advanced features of digital textbooks.




I would like to present the idea of an API for the local and secure storage of student data, student models, e.g. learning and cognitive models, with features supporting digital textbook and learning management software scenarios, such as adaptively selecting and sorting sets of exercises from digital textbook sections or facilitating the planning and generating sequences of exercises, facilitating enhanced features for instructional designers, digital textbook designers and for students of all courses, combinations of courses and independent learning scenarios.










Kind regards,




Adam Sobieski





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