User-centered design methods for validating a recommendations model to enrich learning management systems with adaptive navigation support

Recommendation techniques have shown to be successful in many domains (e.g. movies, books, music, etc.). This success has motivated us to research on how to deploy a recommending system in the eLearning domain to extend the functionality of standard-based learning management systems with adaptive navigation support. An initial model of the recommendation process has been developed from informal discussions with lecturers. This is now being elaborated and validated using a scenario-based user-centered design process. This paper presents the formal methodology to carry out this validation process.