Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia

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Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational
Hypermedia

• Vincent P. Wade
• Director, Knowledeg and Data Engineering Research
  Group
• Trinity College Dublin
• Ireland

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Conceptual Tools

• For Whom?
• Tutor/Teacher in Classroom?
• Academic/Course Designer?
• Professional Developer?
• Course Design Team?
• Built for Everyone can mean used by no one!
• Lets not the mistakes of CASE community!!!
• Lets not the mistakes of ITS community!!!
• Mustnt have many pre-requisites
• Need lightweight, activity based solutions

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Conceptual Tools

• Pedagogy Specific or Pedagogy Neutral?
• Most common reason for eLearning failure is poor
  pedagogy
• Adaptive selection is a poor substitute for
  pedagogy
• If authoring tools are pedagogy specific
• Reduced generality, greater constraints
• Best practice in various pedagogies is not
  agreed or is context sensitive

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Development Implementation Tools

• Again for Whom?
• Open Source vs Commercial Offerings
• Can we avoid mixing media authoring and
  adaptive course authoring?
• Can we avoid lock-in between AH authoring LMS
• Can we support Adaptive Activity Authoring and
  not just Adaptive Content Sequencing

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Development Implementation Tools

• Adaptive content engineering ! Adaptive Service
  Engineering
• But eLearning is about the PROCESS and NOT ABOUT
  THE CONTENT!!!
• How muh CONTROL should be given to
• Course Author,
• User,
• Tutor
• How much should be automatic