Adaptive Hypermedia Content Authoring using MOT3.0

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Adaptive Hypermedia Content Authoring using MOT3.0

• Jonathan G. K. Foss
• Dr. Alexandra I. Cristea

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Motivation

• Creation of adaptive content is crucial to the
  popularisation of A(E)H.
• 2 separate challenges for Authoring AH
• Content Creation
• Strategy Creation
• MOT focuses on Content Creation

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LAOS Framework
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LAOS Framework

• Hierarchy of sublessons (or groups of sublessons)
• Each sublesson is a link to a concept attribute
• Sublessons (or groups) can be labelled/weighted

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LAOS Framework
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My Online Teacher

• Developed since 2000
• Focuses on
• Domain Models
• Goal Models
• Imports/Exports CAF (XML)
• Compatibility with other AH systems such as AHA!

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MOT3.0

• Complete rewrite of MOT1.0
• Focuses on usability
• Uses PHP and AJAX

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MOT3.0

• Replaces static HTML pages with AJAX
• Uses jsTree to display hierarchies
• Allows drag drop reordering

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MOT3.0

• Adds search function
• Adds Yahoo! UI (X)HTML editor

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Interoperability

• Import from non-adaptive educational material
• IMS-CP
• IMS-QTI
• SCORM

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Semi-Automatic Authoring

• Focus on reusing existing content
• MediaWiki
• Microsoft PowerPoint

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MediaWiki Importer

• Extracts concepts from WikiText
• Parses other WikiText into HTML then stored in
  text attribute

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Presentation Importer

• Files converted using OpenOffice.org
• Each slide creates a concept with attributes
• Text
• Image
• Notes

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Future Research

• Extend MediaWiki importer
• Extract keywords from articles
• Crawl/Import related topics
• How deep?! Six Degrees of Seperation?

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Future Research

• Extend Presentation importer
• Use slide titles to create deeper hierarchy

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Summary

• Adaptive Hypermedia Authoring
• LAOS Framework
• MOT3.0 Usability Improvements
• Semi-Automatic Authoring Techniques
• Future Research

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Demonstration

• MOT3.0 will be available for demonstration
• Today 1035-1105
• Thursday 1000-1125 1445-1545
• Friday 1015-1125

Thank You Any Questions?