Adaptivity in a learning companion system

In the last few years, there is an increasing interest in the development of educational applications that seek to improve the teaching and learning process in distance education. This paper presents LeCo-EAD, a learning companion system for distance education. A learning companions system is an intelligent tutoring system that includes an additional component: a learning companion. LeCo-EAD uses the information about a particular student in order to adapt diverse aspects of its functionalities to the students' individual needs. The system user-adapted interaction is accomplished through the choice of the kind of learning companion, the support provided to the conceptual maps navigation, and the kind of feedback messages used.

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