Making today ’ s Learning Management Systems adaptive

The research and development of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Adaptive Learning Environments (ALE) remained disconnected for a long time. The most popular LMSs like Moodle, Sakai or Blackboard still do not support personalization as found in existing adaptive educational hypermedia systems and applications. This document reports the experience and efforts to bridge the gap between LMSs and ALEs by bringing adaptation and personalization into LMSs, including adaptation to individual goals, knowledge, learning styles and context of use as well as adaptation to group characteristics and goals and tasks of groups doing collaborative work.