Toward Pedagogy-Driven Personalized Learning Experiences in Cultural Digital Libraries

Abstract

Cultural heritage institutions hold a vast amount of
multimedia digital content forming a rich source of knowledge about
cultural heritage, natural history, and biodiversity that could be used to
serve various educational contexts and scenarios. However, due to a
number of barriers, this knowledge remains largely unexploited. This
paper addresses the problem and presents a framework and a service-
oriented architecture for supporting personalized learning in cultural
digital collections/libraries allowing: a) accessing and re-purposing
existing multimedia digital content/archives for cultural digital objects,
learning objects and higher learning units, and b) constructing pedagogy-driven
personalized learning experiences in cultural digital collections
statically or dynamically, taking into account different learner needs and
preferences and instructional strategies encoded in educational templates.
The proposed architecture also supports interoperability and sharing of
cultural digital objects, learning objects and learning experiences with
existing eLearning systems and large repositories/aggregators.