A Personalization Service for Curriculum Planning

In this work we describe a "semantic personalization" web service for curriculum planning. Based on a semantic annotation of a set of courses, provided by the University of Hannover, reasoning about actions and change —in particular classical planning— are exploited for creating personalized curricula, i.e. for selecting and sequencing a set of courses which will allow a student to achieve her learning goal. The specific student's context is taken into account during the process: students with different initial knowledge will be suggested different solutions. The Curriculum Planning Service has been integrated as a new plug-and-play personalization service in the Personal Reader framework.