Study case of an adaptive educational tool oriented to university students for an object orientation course

Abstract

The use of e-learning for educational purposes has been the focus of researchers for a long time, because of the difficulty to determine if a tool based on this concept is able to instruct the educational content that a professor can easily teach on a classroom. In this document the available tools and teaching methods to deliver Adaptive Learning to each user are investigated. Through the development of this paper, the adaptive techniques to be implemented to the Educational Tool are proposed; how and which contents will be presented to the students and which adaptation model will be applied to that content. Thanks to the investigations on the topic, and the analysis of the performance of the students on the Object Orientation course, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), preliminary models for the Educational and Adaptive Tool have been defined, with promising results.