Providing Feedback To Students In TANGOW

One of most important aspects in web-based learning environments is the need of providing feedback to students so that they know their situation with respect to the totality of the course. In static web-based courses, whose structure is similar to that of textbooks, this feedback information is not too difficult to provide. However, this is not the case for environments that take into account the student profile and her/his actions when following the course. One of these environments is TANGOW (Task-based Adaptive learNer Guidance On the Web), a system for adaptive Internet-based learning implemented by the authors. This paper discusses the importance of providing feedback in web- based learning environments. Afterwards, the feedback mechanisms provided in TANGOW along with their implementation are described.