Evaluating adaptive learning model

Distance learning or e-learning is a trend of modern education, which brings new chance of study to everyone. Thus, everyone can study at anywhere and anytime so that they can improve and update their knowledge in lifelong time. Adaptive learning is a research branch of e-learning, which give adaptation and personalization to users in learning context. Different people receive different learning materials / teaching methods in accordance with their individual information / characteristics such as knowledge, goal, experience, interest, background, etc. Such individual information is structured in a format so-called user model. User model is the heart of adaptive learning system. User model is managed by user modeling system. There are many theories and practical methods to build up user model and adaptive learning system and each method has particular aspects but it is very difficult to determine which method or system is good because there is no evaluation standard and each method has particular strong point and drawbacks. Therefore, the goal of this research is to propose criterions to evaluate adaptive learning system and user modeling system. Moreover, research gives an evaluation scenario considered as an example for applying proposed criterion into evaluating adaptive learning system and user modeling in learning context.