A support for navigation path planning with adaptive previewing for Web-based learning

How to help learners plan a navigation path on the Web is an important issue in Web-based learning/education. Our approach to this is to allow the learners to preview a sequence of Web pages as a navigation path plan. In this paper, we introduce an assistant system that enables learners to plan the navigation path in a self-directed way before navigating hyperspace provided by Web-based learning resources. It also realizes an adaptive previewing in accordance with their planning context. Since the adaptive previewing gives the learners in advance an overview of the contents to be learned, their learning in hyperspace can be improved.