Co-Creation in Generic Educational Activities: A Swarming Framework

The flipped classroom model enhances student engagement by encouraging active participation and collaboration, wherein students co-create knowledge by collaborating to address complex educational tasks, fostering deeper interaction between students and teachers. Swarming, a nature-inspired approach, uses collective intelligence to solve complex problems effectively, similar to how students work together in the flipped classroom. The knapsack problem involves selecting a subset of items with maximum desirability while meeting specific constraints. In education, this can represent choosing the most relevant resources from a large corpus for a given research question while managing constraints like time or complexity. This work proposes a framework that maps the task of selecting educational resources to the knapsack problem, solving it through the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm to leverage collaborative learning. Experimentation shows that the proposed solution is more suitable for this context, while ACOs sensitivity analysis demonstrates its effectiveness for the framework’s needs.