Developing an architecture for effective feedback in a smart learning environment.

This thesis presents research aimed at helping the modern educators and instructional designers to provide their students with balanced feedback, as well as to build sustainable and flexible learning environments. Even though the contribution of the thesis can be considered interdisciplinary, the main context of this research lays in the field of conceptual modelling for software and enterprise engineering. Every chapter of this thesis presents one of the aspects of conceptual modelling education, with the final chapter generalizing the learning-related concepts explored in the context of conceptual data modelling to a context-independent educational architecture. When exploring this work, the reader will get acquainted with the current issues of conceptual modelling education, encounter new ways to systematize student errors and provide feedback on those errors, along with the practical pedagogical experiences, and, finally, examine the context-independent learning environment architecture.