One of the main problems with e-learning environments is their lack of personalization (or adaptivity). They cannot offer customisation for the student; they can only offer identical contents to all the consumers. Educational Adaptive Hypermedia (EAH) environments should be the answer to this problem. Adaptive Hypermedia is a relatively new field (starting around the early 1990s), but it alread...

This article gives a comprehensive overview of techniques for personalised hypermedia presentation. It describes the data about the computer user, the computer usage and the physical environment that can be taken into account when adapting hypermedia pages to the needs of the current user. Methods for acquiring these data, for representing them as models in formal systems and for making general...

Adaptive hypermedia is an alternative approach to the traditional approach "one size fits all". Adaptive Navigation Support (ANS) is one of the adaptation techniques used to help users find their way in hyperspace. ANS has created interesting opportunities in e-learning applications to address users with different learning goals and different knowledge level. However, adaptive hypermedia techni...

Adaptive educational hypermedia environments use properties of the application domain (e.g. conceptual structure of a course, with prerequisite relationships) to perform adaptation based on the user’s browsing behaviour. This paper adds the idea of including cognitive styles in the adaptation decisions. Research on cognitive styles suggests that taking the styles into account can significantly ...

One distinctive feature of any adaptive system is the user model that represents essential information about each user. This chapter complements other chapters of this book in reviewing user models and user modeling approaches applied in adaptive Web systems. The presentation is structured along three dimensions: what is being modeled, how it is modeled, and how the models are maintained. After...

The purpose of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems is to define methods and techniques to deliver personalized learning support. Even their benefits and potentialities for educational contexts are clear, their use in real learning contexts is still rare. Reasons for this include the complexity of their development, their use of exclusive methods for defining adaptivity and educational eleme...

Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems are sophisticated applications that offer a solution to the shortcomings of their non-adaptive counterparts, attempting to provide individualized and customized learning, tailored to the learner’s needs. Even though substantial research and development of such systems has taken place the past years, they are still designed and developed from scratch. The r...

Adaptive Hypermedia Systems can be developed to accommodate a variety of individual differences, including learning style and cognitive style . This study investigates the hypothesis that adaptive hypermedia accommodating cognitive styles can be beneficial for the observed learning outcomes . A prototype system, designed to be adapted to individual cognitive styles, was developed as a case stud...

Every learner is fundamentally different. However, few courses are delivered in a way that is tailored to the specific needs of each student. Delivery systems for adaptive educational hypermedia have been extensively researched and found promising. Still, authoring of adaptive courses remains a challenge. In prior research, we have built an adaptive hypermedia authoring system, MOT3.0. The main...