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.