Abstract
Curriculum sequencing aims to provide a customized optimal learning path
through the curriculum landscape to individual learners since learners have different prior
background knowledge, preferences, and goals. Researchers have given considerable
attention to flexible curriculum sequencing control to provide adaptable, personalized
learning programs. In an adaptive educational system, an optimal learning path aims to
maximize a combination of parameters including the learner’s understanding of courseware
and the efficiency of learning the courseware. Flexibility in learning offers a learner an
autonomy and control over his/her learning process as self-regulated learning. There exist a
number of dimensions of flexible learning like class times, course content, location,
organizational infrastructure, methods, learning styles, course requirements etc. This paper
presents a scheme for advice generation, with the help of ACO, for curriculum sequencing
under flexible learning system. The proposed frame work provides flexibility in time by
asking the learner his affordability and allows his choice of the subjects to be learned by
tracking his learning experiences. On the basis of these parameters, an optimized advice is
generated, suggesting the learner, his future course of action, to be targeted towards the
achievement of his learning objectives. The proposed system has been found to work
satisfactorily with various test cases.
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