Abstract
The ability of educational applications to adapt to individual students has been a sought-after feature for more than a decade. The difficulty of developing this kind of software and the lack of adequate tools that facilitate this endeavour have hindered the participation of instructors and teachers in the elaboration of adaptive applications. In this paper we describe an authoring tool, ATLAS, that aims at combining expressive power and ease of use in the design of adaptive web courses. ATLAS allows the fully interactive construction of courses that adapt automatically to the student’s characteristics and her/his behaviour while taking the course. The designer interacts with the tool by using an intuitive visual language based on the direct manipulation of elements involved in the course. The tool takes care of the transition between a teacher’s understanding of the course and the representation model of the underlying system.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
M.W. Goldberg and S. Salari. An update on WebCT (World-Wide-Web Course Tools)— a Tool for the Creation of Sophiticated Web-based Learning Environment. Proceedings NAUWeb’97 — Current Practices in Web-based Course Development. Flagstaff, Arizona, 1997.
J. Vassileva. Dynamic Courseware Generation on the WWW. Proceedings 8th World Conference of the AIED Society. Kobe, Japan, 1997, pp. 498–505.
G. Weber and M. Specht. User modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support in WWW-based Tutoring Systems. Proceedings 6th International Conference on User Modeling (UM97). Sardinia, Italy, 1997.
R.M. Carro, E. Pulido, P. Rodríguez. Dynamic generation of adaptive Internet-based courses. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, v. 22, 1999, pp. 249–257.
N. Sukaviriya, J. Foley, T. Griffith. A Second Generation User Interface Design Environment: the Model and the Run-Time Architecture. Proceedings ACM International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (InterCHI’93). Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 375–382.
P. Szekely, P. Sukaviriya, P. Castells, J. Muthukumarasamy and E. Salcher. Declarative Interface Models for User Interface Construction: The Mastermind Approach. In “Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction”, L. Bass and C. Unger, eds. Chapman & Hall, 1996, pp. 120–150.
A. R. Puerta. A Model-Based Interface Development Environment. IEEE Software, v. 14, no 4, 1997, pp. 40–47.
A. Cypher, ed. Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration. The MIT Press, 1993.
P. Castells and P. Szekely. Presentation Models by Example. In “Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems’ 99”, D.J. Duke and A. Puerta, eds. Springer-Verlag, Viena, 1999, pp. 100–116.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Macías, J.A., Castells, P. (2001). Interactive Design of Adaptive Courses. In: Ortega, M., Bravo, J. (eds) Computers and Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47533-2_23
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47533-2_23
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-0-7923-7188-5
Online ISBN: 978-0-306-47533-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive