Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia Dr. Alexandra Cristea

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Regular learning material Linear One story line Granularity doesn’t matter Reuse is no issue (normally) Book-like structure

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Intelligent learning material Non-Linear Several story lines Granularity does matter Reuse is an issue Hypermedia-like structure so …

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Authoring ILS, AHS content alternatives, : domain model adaptation techniques & : adaptation model whole user-description design : user model complicated heavy task => authors require help, guidelines & automation facilities. for AHS to spread widely => facilitate author work (Open Learning Repositories)

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Authoring & standardization Formalization attempts: –standardising the whole procedure Research on a systematic base –clear explicit models for adaptive authoring

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Authoring perspectives Conceptual view: defining concepts, interrelationships and resources. Navigational (goal) view: defining pages content and navigation behavior. Presentation view: defining presentation aspect like frame, frameset, and window.

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Content alternatives (attributes) ex. Concept Title: Adaptive Hypermedia Introduction: Adaptive Hypermedia deals with personalization and adaptation in hypertext and hypermedia. Keywords: adaptive; hypermedia; hypertext; personalization Conclusion: Adaptive Hypermedia deals with personalization and adaptation in hypertext and hypermedia. Text: Adaptive Hypermedia is a special type of hypermedia that customizes the information that each user receives. Based on an interpretation of the user’s current needs, interests, goals, knowledge, etc., adaptive hypermedia systems provide the users with information...

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 User model population (initialization) ex. Concept1 Concept2 Concept3 Knowledge: 0 Knowledge: 10 Knowledge: 20 Interest: 50 Age group: 10 years Learning style: unknown overlayfree

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Presentation model population (initialization) ex. Concept1 Concept2 Concept3 Color char: Red Color char: Blue Color char: Black Page no.: 3 Min char size: 10 points Screen resolution: 1024x768 pixels overlayfree Connection: 56kbps modem

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptation techniques ex. Concept1 Concept2 Concept3 prerequisite

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Adaptive navigation & presentation

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Authoring Roles – regular LM Author performs all (or at least most of) the tasks required in creation of the learning material

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Authoring Roles – intelligent LM Author could perform all (or at least most of) the tasks required in creation of the learning material Ideally, authoring roles would be applicable, depending on the specialization of the author –Domain –Adaptation mechanism –Meta-data –etc.

Invited Tutorial, Madrid, Spain April 2008 Conclusion authoring The tasks are divided The domain is restructured and divided A lot of new components emerge So we need a framework to describe this new structure