Adaptive Learning Suite

Competentum Adaptive Learning Suite includes a full set of technologies and tools for implementation of adaptive learning courses in a SCORM-based environment. Adaptive learning enables engaging, personalized, and thus more efficient learning experience, and allows for consistent objectives-based electronic curriculum. The course activities and media are delivered according to student’s progress and preferences. All components of Adaptive Learning Suite fully conform to SCORM 2004. The Suite is platform independent, its modules can be adopted into any learning management system to enable SCORM 2004 support.

Sequencing Engine

The powerful implementation of SCORM 2004 (1.3.2) Book 4 Specification “Sequencing and Navigation” based upon IMS “Simple Sequencing” spec. This is a standalone Java library that could be integrated into different Learning Management Systems environment to add sequencing and navigation functionality. This functionality is responsible for the playback of adaptive courses created using SCORM 2004.

Adaptive Course Templates

Templates are reusable implementations of different pedagogical strategies, like prescriptive learning, knowledge-paced learning, preferences-based learning, learning in situation environment, which automatically accommodate various learner behaviors. Each template is supplied with learning process application guidelines, use cases, and working example of an adaptive scenario based on a template. An instructor can instantiate new scenario from the template and fill it with the content using an authoring tool. Templates also contain specific parameters which are being made available for setting up in the authoring tool by the instructor.

Knowledge Space Builder

Knowledge space builder is a tool that allows to develop special type of adaptive testing scenarios. Adaptive tests created with Knowledge Space Builder differ substantially from classical tests when a student is assigned with a score that corresponds to his or her mastery level in a particular subject. These tests allows quick determination of the parts of subject area that has been successfully mastered by the student and the parts in which student lacks experience. Due to the adaptive nature of the testing algorithm the testing system adapts to the knowledge level of a student to determine and omits the test questions that a student is likely to know (or not to know) how to answer. The final output of the Knowledge Space Builder is a SCORM 2004 course with adaptive test logic embedded into it. This course can be delivered with any SCORM2004 compatible LMS.

Course Player

The elementary Learning Management System, implemented as web application with FULL support of SCORM 2004 (1.3.2) shared content objects rendering and processing. The player contains several client-side modules - adapter objects, which are used to communicate SCORM Runtime data model variables to LMS’s tracking system, sequencing engine or other applications. These objects are implemented in a browser independent way.