An Adaptive Course on Templatebased Adaptive Hypermedia Design

1
An Adaptive Course on Template-based Adaptive
Hypermedia Design

• Félix Muñoz, Alvaro Ortigosa
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• alvaro.ortigosa_at_uam.es

2
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

3
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

4
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

5
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

6
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

7
Adaptive tutorial options
8
Adaptive tutorial selected structure

• Predefined structure

Student knowledge levels Three levels
Student learning styles Two dimensions
9
Adaptive tutorial editing the template
10
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.

11
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

12
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

13
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