Personalisation for all: making adaptive course composition easy
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Dagger, D., Wade, V., Conlan, O., Personalisation for All: Making Adaptive Course Composition Easy, Special issue of the Educational Technology and Society Journal, IEEE IFETS, 8, (3), 2005, p9 - 25Download Item:
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The goal of personalised eLearning is to support e-learning content, activities and collaboration, adapted to
the specific needs and influenced by specific preferences of the learner and built on sound pedagogic
strategies. One of the major challenges to the mainstream adoption of personalised eLearning is the
complexity and time involved in composing the adaptive learning experience. The key goal in personalized
eLearning development tools is to sup-port the teacher in composing adaptive and non-adaptive eLearning
experiences. One of the arguments of this paper is that these learning experiences should be activityoriented
and pedagogically driven. Presented is a detailed discussion of the challenges of composing
adaptive courses and in particular the difficulties and possible techniques in composing appropriate models
and information to support adaptive courses. The paper describes an adaptive course construction
methodology which extends traditional eLearning syllabi development with design activities which support
adaptivity definition, subject matter concept modelling, adaptivity technique selection as well as alternative
instructional design template customisation. The paper then details the Adaptive Course Construction
Toolkit (ACCT), which supports this methodology and illustrates the tools usage in the development of an
adaptive course. Finally the paper presents an initial evaluation of the toolkit and its associated
methodology.
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