ICON (Instructional Cultural cONtextualisation) system

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Description

A proposed intelligent learning-environment architecture that models students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds and dynamically adapts educational content through a contextual student model, repository, language adapter, and controller.

Components

• ICON system: dynamic intracultural contextualisation architecture for ILEs: ICON (Instructional Cultural cONtextualisation) models conceptual and linguistic variations across the subcultures in a student's background and generates culturally adapted educational content dynamically. Its architecture comprises four components: "a Contextual Student Model, Contextual Element Repository, Cultural Linguistics Adapter, and a Controller". The CSM estimates metacultural competence via weighted rule-based membership scores; the repository selects culturally appropriate images and terms using the CERA ontology; the adapter varies formality (acrolect/mesolect/basilect) and substitutes localized vocabulary measured as sentence distortion; the Controller links ICON to the host ILE. (Phaedra Mohammed et al. (2015))

Claims

• Student ratings of culturally contextualised content show no statistically significant effects of cultural density level or content type, and no significant interaction [+M]
• Students tolerate higher cultural density for semantically contextualised content (descriptions, images), peaking at 40%, than for linguistically modified hints and feedback, peaking at 20% [+M]

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Key Sources

• Phaedra Mohammed & Permanand Mohan. (2015). Dynamic Cultural Contextualisation of Educational Content in Intelligent Learning Environments using ICON. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 25:249–270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-014-0033-9

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title	ICON (Instructional Cultural cONtextualisation) system
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