Integrating Competency-Based Education in Interactive Learning Systems

TL;DR

This paper describes how to enhance the Artemis interactive learning system to support competency-based education by personalizing content and visualizing student progress, with positive usability study results.

Contribution

It introduces a method for integrating competency relations and personalized learning paths into Artemis, enabling tailored education based on individual student profiles.

Findings

Effective visualization of student progress achieved

Personalized learning paths improve engagement

Usability of new features rated positively

Abstract

Artemis is an interactive learning system that organizes courses, hosts lecture content and interactive exercises, conducts exams, and creates automatic assessments with individual feedback. Research shows that students have unique capabilities, previous experiences, and expectations. However, the course content on current learning systems, including Artemis, is not tailored to a student's competencies. The main goal of this paper is to describe how to make Artemis capable of competency-based education and provide individual course content based on the unique characteristics of every student. We show how instructors can define relations between competencies to create a competency relation graph, how Artemis measures and visualizes the student's progress toward mastering a competency, and how the progress can generate a personalized learning path for students that recommends relevant learning resources. Finally, we present the results of a user study regarding the usability of the newly designed competency visualization and give an outlook on possible improvements and future visions.