Sixth International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems (CATS2015)

Since e-learning systems are used by a wide variety of students with different characteristics, being adapted to user’s model and profile is an essential feature. Although there are several approaches for adaptive e-learning environments, they focus mainly on technological and/or networking aspects without taking into account other contextual aspects, such as cultural and pedagogical context. This paper presents an improvement of an adaptive elearning environment called AdaptWeb, based on a rich context model as an extension to the traditional student modeling.

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