A Web-based User Adaptive Learning Environment

We present a design structure for constructing web based user adaptive learning environments. Currently the web offers huge amounts of unstructured information but no facilities for exploiting this in a problem solving situation. Our aim is to gather and present information from the web, based on specific user needs and in accordance with pedagogical theory concerning learning situations. The proposed design structure strives to incorporate in a principled manner knowledge concerning the user, the current problem to be solved, the gathering and presentation of the related information from the web in a user adapted fashion and finally, but most importantly, the interrelations between all these notions.