University’s Educational Environment Personalization Based on the Ontological Models

Abstract

The paper presents a work in progress. Personalization of the educational environment allows improving the quality of the educational process, raising it to a new level. Our development is intended to diagnose and recommend educational content, depending on the students’ personality. This article describes a system of ontological models (Learner Model, educational content model and cognitive functions model) designed to diagnose students’ characteristics and the subsequent issuance of educational content, taking into account these characteristics. The learner model, implemented as a Protege ontology, is based not only on human professional experience but also on student testing results. This approach, based on the use of various IQ tests, allows reflecting in the ontology the dependencies identified due to linear regression methods, as well as other types of analysis. By this way we will reduce the dependence of the model on the human expert’s personality and make it more objective. Using the Protege tools, we will combine three ontologies in the architecture of a personalized environment through rules and axioms.