Abstract:

Thai students, for many generations, have been passive and relied heavily on teacher-led instructions. This is particularly true, even with the technology-enhanced learning, where most systems have been developed and centred on one-time user stereotyping. This inevitably aggravates the lack of students’ creativity and originality problems. This paper presents an adaptive e-learning system, integrated with the concept of multi-dimensional linkbases (MDL) and STEM education, to provide a means of lifelong learning modelling to resolve the problem. The MDL concept has been adopted for personalisation of the link augmentation, allowing a different set of multi-dimensional links based on STEM education to be available when learners progress, instead of making links visible at one time. The paper reports on details of the system, evaluation results, as well as future plans. It is argued that this system can support both short-term and long-term learning, and with the multi-dimensional link augmentation, it would provide a more dynamic STEM learning environment. The leaner model could then grow and adapt according to the learning progress; hence encouraging students to become more active and creative.

Keywords:

Multi-dimensional linkbases, lifelong learning modelling, STEM education.