Adaptive Authoring of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia

In this paper we propose a set of development guidelines for an adaptive authoring environment of adaptive educational hypermedia. This set consists of relevant and necessary functionalities and architectural features of authoring systems (AS) for adaptive teaching and/or learning environments (LE). We extracted the core functionalities by analysing MyEnglishTeacher (MyET) and AIMS - two independently designed and built AS for adaptable/ adaptive LE. The extended core led us to a concept-based layered approach with respect to concept- and attribute-level adaptation, as well as lesson and presentation adaptation. We believe that providing adaptive authoring support for adaptive hypermedia will have a strong impact on the authors' motivation and efficiency in performing their tasks and consequently will increase the popularity of adaptive hypermedia.

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