A customizable recommendation engine for lms

HSTC203

A Customizable Recommendation engine for LMS

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A Customizable Recommendation engine for lms Challenge

Situation A UK based company in the field of blended learning wanted to expand their user base by providing a customizable application for generating a learning plan This application was lacking feature of integration with different LMS Older Adobe Flash based application had hardcoded contents and static UI resulting into complete dependency on software vendor for customizations

Need for generalized integration interface to support integration with various flavors of LMS. Need to have algorithmic approach to formulate reliable decision making process based on user interaction.

Need to support desktop version of the application along with tracking of user activity.

Need for administrative interface to create and support customizable contents.

Harbinger Solution Harbinger suggested automation of configuration of app, rules and contents of the app by providing web-based administrative interface.

Designed decision tree based algorithms and implemented using JSON and Flex technologies to generate recommended learning plan according to user input.

Utilized shared objects to retain user interaction in the desktop version of the application.

PHP based email mechanism implemented to make learning plan available for future use.

Provided configurable wizard based web-interface to provide details such as LMS APIs and parameters, text and graphics.

Benefits

Technologies & Tools Adobe Flex Action Script 3.0 ASP.NET PHP JSON HTML

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With the help of authoring tool client’s dependency on software vendor was eliminated.

Customer was able to cater to various custom requirements for interactivity, LMS integrations and organization specific rules with the help of configurable tool.

Increased and widened user base with the application’s capability to integrate with various types of LMSs as well as with firms not having LMS capability.

Accurate learning recommendations to the end users enhanced their learning experience. rfi@harbingergroup.com

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BOTTOM LINE A configurable recommendation engine has enabled Harbinger customer to cater wide range of end-clients and deploy recommended learning plan solution.