Classroom eXperience: from automated multimedia capture to personalized learning

Computers have become everyday tools in the contemporary classroom. Laptops, tablets, smartphones, electronic whiteboards and other computing devices are constantly used to support instructors and students in the teaching-learning process, providing personalized and enriched educational content, as well as collaboration and learning analytics tools. In this article, we revisit the Classroom eXperience platform after 10 years of continuous use and present its evolution to incorporate collaboration, personalization, recommendation and assessment visualization features. We describe the general architecture of the platform as a paradigm for authoring and extending multimedia educational content, generating learning objects that can later be customized according to students’ learning styles. We also highlight and bring together the main results obtained during our long-term experience, focusing on how they impacted users. By providing personalized and relevant content, the platform can help students stay engaged and motivated throughout the educational process and, ultimately, improve their learning outcomes.