ADAPT "Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT"

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ADAPT"Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based
on ICT"

• Alexandra Cristea
• a.i.cristea_at_tue.nl
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/alex/

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Contents

• Project data at a glance
• Goal
• People
• Types of activities
• Evaluation/ dissemination strategies
• Outcome of the project
• Products and outputs
• Global time-table
• Adapt papers
• Interesting information

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Project data at a glance

• Minerva (Socrates) project ADAPT
• project reference number 101144-CP-1-2002-NL
  -MINERVA-MPP
• Duration of project (in months) 24
• Number of partners 6
• Partner countries involved The Netherlands,
  United Kingdom, Italy
• Sub-title Adaptivity and adaptability in
  ODL based on ICT
• Project site http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/alex/HTML/M
  inerva/index.html

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ADAPT goal

• to establish a European platform of standards
  (guidelines, techniques and tools) for user
  modeling -based adaptability and adaptation, in
  the sense of the new paradigm of intelligent
  human -computer interaction, based on the new
  generation of ODL tools, towards
  individualization of the learning process.
• aims at virtual campuses, e-learning, students
  tutoring and services, with special focus on
  adaptation to the learner's needs.

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People
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Partners in a few words

• Rik Min Italo De Diana, Twente - pioneers in
  use and research of technology in education
• Carlo Strapparava natural language processing
• Franca Garzotto design patterns experience
• Hugh Davis Microcosm (one of the few commercial
  hypertext systems)
• Tim Brailsford - WHURLE project transclusion
  simple adaptation user model creating
  individualized virtual docs
• Helen Ashman - hypertext hypermedia, book on
  new frontiers of learning
• Paul De Bra AHA! System, AHAM adaptive
  hypermedia framework
• Alexandra Cristea LAOS adaptive authoring
  framework for adaptive hypermedia LAG the three
  layers of adaptation granularity MOT System

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Types of activities

• project meetings, study of existing practices,
  system development, evaluation meetings, reports,
  project workshop, dissemination, testing,
  conferences, workshops

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Target groups

• university students from the 3 countries involved
  (The Netherlands, Italy and United Kingdom) and
  others,
• teaching staff from the institutions
  participating in the project and outside,
• researchers in these disciplines,
• the larger research community,
• the standards community

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Evaluation/ dissemination strategies

• PROJECT MONITORING
• EVALUATION STRATEGIES
• DISSEMINATION IN THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND
  BEYOND

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PROJECT MONITORING

• Progress is monitored by the project leader
  during the whole duration of the project.

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EVALUATION STRATEGIES

• self-evaluation and distribution of own results,
  partner cross-evaluation, peer evaluation, user
  feedback (from students and course developers),
  external experts, opinion exchange, written
  evaluations, suitability evaluation, using both
  empirical methods (i.e., user testing) and
  inspection methods (e.g., heuristic evaluation)
  and finally an overall achievement test and
  evaluation.

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DISSEMINATION IN THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND
BEYOND

• The initial outputs of the project will be
  exploited by the partners.
• The output and deliverables list itself includes
  dissemination of findings and products, via
• international conferences and workshops,
• Internet publication (on-line dissemination of
  project results and deliverables) and
• contacting the IEEE LTTF LTSC standard committee.
  

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Outcome of the project

• The projects main outcome is to significantly
  contribute not only towards standardization of
  the new generation of ODL adaptation techniques
  and tools, but also to provide alternate styles
  of teaching and learning, optimally suited for
  ODL or a combination of ODL and traditional
  classroom teaching.

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Products and outputs

• a set of relevant good practices of adaptation
  techniques for education and counter-examples,
• a minimal set of relevant, necessary features for
  adaptation techniques in education and
  counter-examples,
• research of integration of adaptive hypermedia
  elements into existing learning environments,
• reports, both internal and external (conferences,
  workshops, etc.),
• a sample authoring system for adaptive techniques
  in education, one (or more) training system(s)
  based on the minimal set of relevant adaptive
  features,
• evaluation, dissemination and promotion of
  results.

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We were here
background study
system development
testing 2nd prototype
final test
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ADAPT Papers

• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/alex/HTML/Minerva/papers/

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Interesting information

• IFETS Discussion http//ifets.ieee.org/
• 4000 people subscribed to IFETS discussion list
  regular discussions on topics related to
  educational technology
• 14 - 25 July 2003
• Alexandra Cristea will moderate a discussion on
• adaptive (and adaptable) hypermedia applied in
  education, at the moment, from an authoring point
  of view.Discussion took place!!
• http//ifets.ieee.org/discussions/discuss_july2003
  .html

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We are here
background study
system development
testing 2nd prototype
final test
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ADAPT System developments

• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/Minerva/sys
  tems/

Here you can try out, online or by downloading,
the different systems created or developed within
the ADAPT project.
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Updated Interesting information

• announcing
• The First International Workshop on Authoring of
  Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia
• http//www.iasted.org/conferences/2004/Innsbruck/
  wbe-specsess-cristea.htm
• A special session at the IASTED International
  Conference on Web-based Education, WBE 2004
• February 16-18, 2004, Innsbruck, Austria
• Youre all invited to participate!!