Creating Adaptive Course Texts with AHA!

Abstract

DefinitionAHA! is an adaptive hypermedia architecture used to create and manage the course content.The Adaptive Hypermedia Architecture or AHA! [2, 4] was initially developed to create an adaptive version of a course on Hypermedia, taught at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and offered on-line to students of several Dutch and Belgian universities. Through a grant of the NLnet Foundation the adaptation engine has been extended to make it very general-purpose, and authoring tools have been developed to help course developers in the design of the conceptual structure of a course and in the management of the course content. Key characteristics of AHA! are:The structure of every course consists of concepts, concept relationships and pages. For every page there is a corresponding concept. When a student reads a page the system will register knowledge about the concept corresponding to that page. Through knowledge propagation relationships the page access also leads to knowle ...