Granular approach to adaptivity in problem-based learning

This paper discusses the limitations of PBL learning environments and introduces the student adaptivity technology into PBL environments to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the learning process. A web-based prototype is implemented in accounting domain by using PHP, MySQL and Apache. With the system, students work on the real world costing calculation problems, and the system evaluates students’ performance results on the problems to provide adaptation to the students.