An Approach to Assist Learners to Build Their Own Curriculum in Personal Learning Environment Context, Based on the AI Concepts

Abstract

With the emergence of information technologies and the proliferation and diversification of learning tools, educational institutions have diversified their approaches and resources in order to improve learners’ performance and education quality. Thus, they have invested in the learning environments which offer learners’ personalization learning possibilities. But this option depends generally on institutional constraints. Considering this limit, personal learning environments (PLEs) have come to allow learners to individually develop their learning environment by selecting the right curriculum, resources, and appropriate activities. This concept is in vogue, especially in the lifelong learning context. Mostly, the setting up of such an environment is not based on educational concepts (choice of objectives, selection of appropriate programs and activities). As a result, we are faced with undesirable situations: learning is not aligned with learner prerequisites; training layout does not align with the content and learner expectations. The question arises: how can learners define their learning objectives, set up their own activities, and follow their training? In this context, we propose an approach to assist learners to build their own curriculum, which is supported by an assisted PLE developed on the basis of artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and using a dynamic questionnaire.