Extending authoring for adaptive learning to collaborative authoring

Abstract

Research on learning systems has led to the development of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) systems that offer students adaptive learning and free exploratory lessons. Developing learning spaces for AEH, however, requires a lot of effort due to the complexity of the learning resources, consisting of learning content, domain knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, which are completed with adaptation rules. Current authoring tools for adaptive learning present drawbacks in terms of the reusability of their output and their collaborative work features. In this paper, a proposed collaborative authoring approach for developing adaptive learning resources is presented. The advantages of the proposed approach lie in the application of a collaborative method; the use of a learning standard, IMS Learning Design, for reusability and extensibility reasons; and the repurposing of learning materials available in existing open content systems. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.