This paper proposes an architecture for providing personalization services for adaptive educational hypermedia. We formalize adaptation functionality in a re-usable way appropriate for the use in the semantic web. We show how to design personalization services that provide re-usable adaptation methods employing semantic web description formats. keywords: adaptive hypermedia, personalization, ad...

Adaptive hypermedia courseware systems resolve the problem of users’ disorientation in hyperspace through the adaptive navigation and presentation support. We describe the AHyCo Adaptive Hypermedia Courseware — an adaptive Web-based educational system for creation and reuse of adaptive courseware with emphasis on adaptive navigation support and lessons sequencing. The proposedmodel consists of ...

Adaptive hypermedia (AH) educational systems aim at improving self-learning of individuals. Although the research in this area is very active, only little work is done in the area of educational knowledge representation and their use in various domains. In this paper we present the ALEA (Adaptive LEArning) system, which is a web-based environment targeted on support of learning programming lang...

This paper presents the outcome of the first stage of the ongoing research that deals with the education of children with cerebral palsy using the adaptive hypermedia courseware. Teachers can use software as an interactive multimedia designed unit of instruction to supplement traditional education teaching methods. This requirement acquires even greater significance in smaller non-English speak...

The paper describes a classification system for adaptive methods developed in the area of adaptive educational hypermedia based on four dimensions: What components of the educational system are adapted? To what features of the user and the current context does the system adapt? Why does the system adapt? How does the system get the necessary information? Based on this taxonomy several classical...

Adaptive hypermedia systems (AHS) have typically been geared towards one specific application or application area, in most cases related to education. The AHA (Adaptive Hypermedia Architecture) system is a Web-based adaptive hypermedia system specifically intended to serve many different purposes. As such AHA must be able to perform adaptation that is based on the user’s browsing actions, regar...

Despite the fact that adaptive hypermedia techniques have proven their ability to provide user guidance and orientation in hyperspace, we do not currently see the widespread adoption of these techniques. A couple of reasons may explain this phenomenon. One of them is the current lack of re-usability and interoperability between adaptive techniques/systems, which – to some degree – originates in...

The main hindrance to expanded use of adaptive educational hypermedia systems is the need for content to be properly described in the terms of domain concepts. This requirement slows down the authoring process and creates an obstacle to the broader distribution of such systems. In the current paper, we propose an approach to providing automated content indexing for adaptive educational hypermed...

Adaptive educational hypermedia necessitate semantic description of a domain, which is used by an adaptive engine to perform adaptation to a learner. The bottleneck of adaptive hypermedia is manual authoring of such semantic description performed by a domain expert mainly due to the amount of descriptions to be created. In this paper we present a method for automated discovery of is-a relations...

The paper discusses the problems of applying adaptive hypermedia techniques, namely adaptive navigation support in Web-based educational courseware. Adaptive navigation support techniques provide support mechanisms, which are tailored to accommodate the current knowledge, background and learning goal of an individual user. Web-based education with adaptive guidance is a way to maximize educatio...