Wespot Medoky and FCA Tool
Encompasses a backend web-service component for learner modelling and learning recommendations as well as 3 complementary elgg plugins visualizing the services.
About
The software that can be found at https://github.com/weSPOT/weSpot_MEDoKy_FCA contains:
In the folder https://github.com/weSPOT/weSpot_MEDoKy_FCA/tree/master/MEDoKyService
- The medoky backend service (WebService component)
In the folder https://github.com/weSPOT/weSpot_MEDoKy_FCA/tree/master/ellg-plugins
- FCA plugin: Domain structuring and learner modelling tool based on the Formal Concept Analysis
- MEDoKy plugin: Resource recommendation front end
- Tag plugin: Tag recommendation plugin extending ellgs tag view.
All three plugins rely on the Medoky backend service to present domain concepts and learner models to the user and personalized recommendations to the learner. All calculations, updates and data management is handled by the backend service, which includes the implementation of various learning resource and tag recommendation strategies.
Architecture
The following diagram exemplary illustrates how the FCA plugin communicates with the Medoky backend services. The Medoky architecture relies on user data that is managed by Event Data Store.
