An Adaptive Course on Template-based Adaptive Hypermedia Design Félix Muñoz, Alvaro Ortigosa...

An Adaptive Course on Template-based Adaptive Hypermedia Design

Félix Muñoz, Alvaro Ortigosa

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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Alvaro Ortigosa – Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

AEH in Secondary schools

Conclusions from previous experiments: The use of technology helps to get student

interest in classrooms. Students using adaptive course performed

better than non-adaptive course users. Mean difference between tests: 1.63 Vs 0.33

Students with previous knowledge obtained more benefits from the adaptive course


Secondary school teachers

Context: training course for teachers “Designing multimedia material using new

technologies” Teachers were instructed about

AEH concepts Creation of adaptive course using the

TANGOW system Teaching Tasks and Rules


Creating their own courses

Afterwards, each one was asked to design a course about her subject

1. To describe which aspects of the course would be adapted

2. To specify the relevant features of the user model

3. To design an structure of tasks and subtasks


Creating their own courses

Afterwards, each one was asked to design a course about her subject

To describe which aspects of the course would be adapted

To specify the relevant features of the user model

To design an structure of tasks and subtasks


Perceived need

Each teacher should be guided according to her: Previous knowledge

Adaptive technology – User models TANGOW model

Goals Which students

features will be used for adaptation?

Solution: adaptive tutorial


Adaptive tutorial: options

Dimension Possible values

Teacher previous knowledge Novice, Medium, Advanced

Student knowledge levels One, Two, or Three levels

Student languages One language, Two languages

Student learning styles None, One, Two, Three, Four dimensions

Pedagogical strategy Theory before examples, Examples before theory

Course mode Course, Reference

Exercises Yes, No


Adaptive tutorial: selected structure

Predefined structure

Student knowledge levels: Three levels

Student learning styles: Two dimensions


Adaptive tutorial: editing the template


Results with the adaptive tutorial

A new case of study was developed with a new group of teachers

All the teachers were able to design and implement an adaptive course. At least a first version.

Some teachers were able to go beyond the suggestions of the tutorial, by adding their own rules to the proposed structure.


Conclusions

AH creation must be made easier. AH is useful to assist teachers on the design

of AH courses. Analysis of the structure generated according

to their own needs provided teachers with more insight about AH design.

Set of fixed dimensions seems to provide good support. From the results, it is not clear that new

dimensions should be supported


Future Work

Carrying out further study cases in order to gain more insight on the suitability of the current dimension set.

Developing a new version of the tutorial, able to generate templates according to the users selected dimensions Set of dimensions will be variable.

Working on the reuse of previous experiences and knowledge: Patterns Use cases …


Thank you! Questions?

Outline AEH technology proved useful in secondary

school context. But the technology seems too complicated for

teachers Adaptation techniques can be used also for

supporting teachers Adaptive tutorial helps to select and instantiate

adaptive template

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