Long distance learning via electronic media supplied by a wide range of universities, publishers and other private companies is quickly spreading as an effective way to transfer knowledge and skills to people. Internet, with its vast amount of information and open technologies, is helping developing Web-based Educational Systems (WBES), such as E-learning or Web-based Educational HyperABSTRACT

This paper presents an approach to integrate thinking styles into adaptive hypermedia system. The main objective was to develop an adaptive system and assess the effect of adapting pedagogical activities individualized to the student’s thinking style. The proposed approach used adaptive hypermedia technology to improve learning process by adapting course content presentation to student thinking...

In this paper we describe the proposed framework for representation and presentation of evolving information. As an example we use administrative information about an educational module. Evolution is expressed by a set of scenarios and is used for adaptive presentation of information represented as hypermedia. Representation of meta-information is based on the XML (eXtensible Markup Language). ...

Highly interactive learning environments, such as 3D Educational Virtual Environments can help people in learning through direct experience by visualizing concepts and performing tasks in a reproduction of the real world or in completely fictional worlds that are suited to the learning task. For these applications, adaptivity can play an important role in increasing the effectiveness of the lea...

Authoring tools provide utilities for creating multimedia and hypermedia applications but they neither provide nor enforce efficient presentation models or methodologies. The basic design issues that make the quality and usability of information possible are left up to the developer. We present a three facet adaptive model for development and management of educational hypermedia systems. The mo...

Traditional online dental education courses follow the broadcast paradigm which centers on the teacher, not the student. This one-size-fits-all approach resembles a mass-production idea which cannot take individual learner characteristics into account. Most online course designs do not address the issue that users with different goals and knowledge may be interested in different pieces of infor...

The learning process in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) environments is complex and may be influenced by aspects of the student, including prior knowledge, learning styles, experience and preferences. Current AEH environments, however, are limited to processing only a small number of student characteristics. This paper discusses the development of an AEH system which includes a student mo...

Semantic Web and Adaptive Hypermedia come from different backgrounds, but it turns out that actually, they can benefit from each other, and that their confluence can lead to synergistic effects. This encounter can influence several fields, among which an important one is Education. This paper presents an analysis of this encounter, first from a theoretical point of view, and then with the help ...

Personalisation of information is a desired feature, but authoring and creation of adaptive hypermedia is a difficult endeavour. Especially, manual annotation is the bottleneck of such authoring. Thus it is vital to support the authoring process by reusing automatically generated metadata. Here, we show the integration of the generic AH authoring environment MOT into a semantic desktop environm...