Course Skeleton For Adaptive Learning

A method comprising:

• maintaining a hierarchy of learning goals that includes a plurality of learning goal nodes, each node corresponding to a learning goal;
• adding, to the hierarchy of learning goals, a first learning goal node, corresponding to a particular learning goal;
• wherein the particular learning goal is associated with learning goal metadata;
• wherein the learning goal metadata includes metadata items for finding learning items without identifying any particular learning items;
• maintaining a learning item repository, wherein the learning item repository includes a plurality of learning items;
• receiving a request for learning items to assist a particular user to achieve the particular learning goal;
• in response to receiving the request, using the metadata items to identify a particular learning item, from the learning item repository, to facilitate achievement of the particular learning goal;
• providing the particular learning item as a response to the request for learning items;
• wherein the steps of maintaining the hierarchy of learning goals, maintaining the learning item repository, receiving the request, using the metadata items, and providing the particular learning item are performed by one or more computing devices.